Chiara Frugoni


Chiara Frugoni is an Italian historian and academic, specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay, Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate.

Biography

Chiara Frugoni was born in Pisa, 4 February 1940. Her father was the medievalist, Arsenio Frugoni.. She spent time during childhood and youth in a sanatorium due to suffering from tuberculosis.
Frugoni graduated from Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1964 with a thesis entitled Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana, published two years later in the "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". In it, she searched for a working method that took equal account of both texts and images, a method she always considered important, in line with her conviction that "the image speaks".
She married Salvatore Settis in 1965, with whom she had three children.

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