Margaret Miniati

Margarita Mathilda Miniati (Greek: Μαργαρίτα Ματθίλδη Μηνιάτη, 1821–1887) was a famous Greek scholar and writer who flourished in Italy during the 19th century.

Biographical information She was born in Corfu in 1821 and she was the daughter of Dimitrios Alvanas and Aikaterini Palatianou. She had four more brothers and sisters, Leonidas, Friderikos, Nina and Sada.

She died in 1887 in Livorno. Her body was moved to Florence where it was buried. From her marriage with Georgios Miniatis, she had two daughters, Eleni, who died in childhood, and Aspasia, who dealt with painting.

Works Margarita Miniati is recognized as a multilingual and erudite personality and one of the most important scholars of her time. From 1857 she began her collaboration with the newspaper Hemerisia Nea of London and from 1860 she began to cooperate with several Italian publications. She wrote numerous works in Italian, English and French . In 1865 she published in English her study about "Dante and his time." In the next years other works followed such as "Historical outlines of intellectual and artistic relations of Italy with the Byzantine Empire" (1869), "Correggio, his life and his work" (1881), etc.