"(About Maria Montessori) Italians know her as a maternal and reassuring lady who appeared on the thousand lire banknote for a long time, the only woman depicted on our banknotes, but in her long life she was a transgressive and restless woman, so much so that when asked what nationality she was, she replied: “I live in the sky, my country is a star that revolves around the sun and is called Earth”."
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Francesca Cabrini, in AA.VV., Italiane. Dall'UnitĂ d'Italia alla prima guerra mondiale, vol. I, Dipartimento per l'informazione e l'editoria, Roma, 2004, p. 18
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