Tosca Bucarelli Martini

Tosca Bucarelli Martini (; 4 October 1922 – 10 January 2000 ) was an Italian Partisan and politician from Florence. During the Italian Civil War, she joined the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP), a Communist Partisan organization resisting Mussolini's Fascist Italian Social Republic. She later served as City Councillor for Florence from 1975 to 1980. Santa Veridana monastery, where Bucarelli was held prisoner. On 9 July 1944, she was rescued alongside 16 others from Santa Verdiana by a GAP team led by Bruno Fanciullacci and Elio Chianesi. During her captivity and as a result of Carità's infamous torture methods, she suffered liver damage, which would impact her health for the rest of her life. In fact, both Fanciullacci and Chianesi would be captured and tortured by Carità at Villa Triste less than a week later, with Chianesi dying under torture and Fanciullacci dying during an escape attempt.

Post-war On 16 October 1944, Bucarelli married fellow Partisan Roberto Martini. She had two children with him: Mario in 1953 and Margherita in 1955. She appeared in Liliana Cavani's 1965 film Women of the Resistance . She donated her husband's papers to the city archive in 1995.

Upon her death in 2000, the Council Hall of District 4 at was named in her honour.