When Padua city councillor Margherita Colonnello was in high school, she learned that among the 78 towering marble statues of illustrious locals and others — popes and Galileo among them — that lined her city’s magnificent Prato della Valle square was one of a beloved 16th-century female poet, Gaspara Stampa.
When Colonnello set out to the square to find the poet, though, she says, her heart sank.
“She was just a little head at the feet of the sculptor Andrea Briosco,” she said, “there to show what a great sculptor he was.”
Colonnello, 29, is now attempting to remedy the lack of female inclusion among
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