Teresa Mattei

Teresa "Teresita" Mattei (1 February 1921 – 12 March 2013) was an Italian partisan and politician.

Early and personal life Born in Genoa, in 1938 Mattei was expelled from all schools of the Kingdom of Italy for openly criticizing the Racial laws during class. Graduating in philosophy at the University of Florence in 1944, she joined the partisans under the nom de guerre of Partigiana Chicchi. She took part in the murder of philosopher and Fascist minister Giovanni Gentile.

She was briefly married to , with whom she had a son, writer Gianfranco Sanguinetti.

Career After the war, Mattei was a candidate for the Italian Communist Party (PCI) to the Constituent Assembly, in which she served as a bureau secretary. Mattei was the youngest to be elected to the Constituent Assembly and was thus called "the girl of Montecitorio". She later became national director of the Italian Women's Union (UDI) and introduced the use of mimosa for International Women's Day (IWD)

Death Mattei died in Lari, Tuscany, aged 92, the last living female member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy.