Today, in 1814 Clara Maffei was born in Bergamo (Italy) .
As many noblewomen of the time he had a full name a bit longer: Elena Chiara Maria Antonia Carrara Spinelli.
Become Maffei with the marriage of Andrea. And despite the many names, will be know with the name of Clara.
In addition to having an important role in the Risorgimento, it was definitely an intriguing woman.
So much so that Honoré de Balzac once said of her: “I would have given ten years of my life to be loved by her for three months. Yet at that time in my life I had already traveled a lot, I had lived with women of almost all the countries of Europe. But none had produced an impression on me as lively, deep, instantaneous. ”