Amalia Moretti Foggia

"“Deambulare necesse est; it is necessary to walk, if you wish to fully enjoy that great good which is perfect health! But you, do you complete it, every day, your indispensable walk? And how long is it? All day you spend working upright on your feet, never sitting; and therefore you always feel very tired? But yours is not walking; remember: it is standing.”"

"“It is as if from those years in which I began to write for the ‘Domenica’ I had begun to live two"

"“Posterity knows me (or would have known me) only as Petronilla, ‘the one of the recipes in La Domenica del Corriere’, and as Dr. Amal, but the real Amalia, the doctor who in an era in which no respectable bourgeois would have herself treated by a woman, had to pretend to be a man in order to be credible.”"