Alessandra Necci

Her website is a crossroads of passions, ideas and places, embracing and mixing multiple studies, fields and personal attitudes, all driven by her common thread of cultural enthusiasm, a key component of Alessandra Necci’s profile. She is a writer, international relations lawyer, and radio and television commentator on topical, historical and cultural issues, and newly nominated director of the Galleries Estensi. Over the past decade she has mainly focused on writing biographies, in particular of women in history and mythology, including the forgotten, misunderstood and defamed, in order to reinstate their voices. Among her latest are La regina e l’imperatrice. Maria Antonietta e Maria Teresa (Marsilio, 2022), Caterina de’ Medici (Marsilio, 2019) and Isabella e Lucrezia, le due cognate (Marsilio, 2017).