A Librarian of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

“Eleonora Anna Maria Felice de Fonseca Pimentel was an Italian poetlibrarian, and revolutionary connected with the Neapolitan revolution and subsequent short-lived Neapolitan Republic (also known as the Parthenopean Republic) of 1799, a sister republic of the French Republic and one of many set up in the 1790s in Europe…” Read the full essay at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora_Fonseca_Pimentel

One thought on “A Librarian of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

  1. klmccook March 27, 2025 / 2:48 pm

    O! I wish I’d written the whole essay but I only added some information about her appointment as a librarian. A student in my Library History class who is an undergrad in Italian discovered her story. I am glad to make her heroism more well known. She is now on the roster of librarians at Wikipedia.

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