Biancamaria Frabotta of Rome La Sapienza, where she got her Laurea degree. Frabotta was born in Rome, in the same month of the proclamation of democracy in Italy. As a child, she grew up in the capital, with frequent sojourns in the port-city of Civitavecchia which will later appear in her poetry. After graduating at the Liceo Classico, she started studying Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Her Laurea dissertation is dedicated to the writings of Carlo Cattaneo and won the Carlo Cattaneo prize of the Fondazione Ticino Nostro in Switzerland. In Rome, Frabotta also studied modern poetry (especially Eugenio
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