The room named after Bianca Bianchi, partisan courier and constituent mother. A double room on the first floor, with shared bathroom and windows onto the woods.
Book now →Bianca Bianchi was born in Vicchio del Mugello on 31 July 1914, into a peasant family. She graduated in philosophy from the University of Florence in 1938 and taught in high schools around the province. After 8 September 1943, with the Mugello crossed by the Gothic Line, she joined the Resistance under the nom de guerre "Stella".
She served as a courier for the Garibaldi "Vittorio Sinigaglia–Lavacchini" Brigade, active in the woods of Monte Giovi, just a few kilometres from the house. The role of women couriers in the Mugello is documented in Luigi Falossi's Monte Giovi: la Resistenza nel Mugello (Pagnini Editore, 2004).
On 2 June 1946, at the elections for the Italian Constituent Assembly, Bianchi was elected in the Florence–Pistoia district on the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity list with 15,057 preferences — the highest personal result of any woman candidate in Italy. She was one of the 21 "constituent mothers". In the Assembly, she intervened in particular on the rights of children born out of wedlock (art. 30) and on school equality.
Re-elected to parliament in 1948 and 1953, she later served as vice-president of the Florence provincial council from 1970 to 1985. She died in Florence on 9 July 2000. A library and a street in Vicchio bear her name; the Province of Florence dedicated to her the annual "Bianca Bianchi" prize for historical research on the Resistance.
I think of grandfather Angiolo, and how right he was when I was about to start this work: you are a woman.— Bianca Bianchi, Diary of a parliamentarian