# Bianca Milesi

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**Bianca Milesi Mojon** (May 22, 1790 – June 8, 1849) was an Italian patriot, writer and painter. She also trained girls to become interested in the arts.

## Biography

Bianca Milesi was born into a family of wealthy merchants in [Milan](/source/Milan), daughter of Giovan Battista Milesi and Elena Viscontini. She had four sisters, Antoinette, Francesca, Agostina, Louise, and a brother, Charles, who would join in marriage with his cousin Elena Viscontini, sister of Matilda. She was brought up from six to ten years in a convent in [Florence](/source/Florence), in Milan in the monasteries of St. Sophia and the Holy Spirit, and finally with a governess. A journey made together with her mother in [Tuscany](/source/Tuscany) and [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland) gave her the opportunity to broaden her horizons and study the [philosophy of the Enlightenment](/source/Philosophy_of_the_Enlightenment).

Even after returning to Milan, she continued to travel, periodically visiting Florence and [Rome](/source/Rome). In Florence he met the Countess of Albany [Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern](/source/Princess_Louise_of_Stolberg-Gedern), who had been the mistress of [Vittorio Alfieri](/source/Vittorio_Alfieri). In Rome she came into relationship with [Antonio Canova](/source/Antonio_Canova) and the German painter Sophie Reinhard.

She had a leading role in the [Carbonari](/source/Carbonari) uprisings in Milan in 1821. She later went on to become a drawer and painter, and taught at schools, particularly training girls to become interested in the arts. She died in Paris on June 8, 1849.

## Sources

- Souvestre Émile Blanche Milesi-Mojon. Biographical Angers, Cosnier and Lachèse 1854
- Carlo Cattaneo, Bianca Milesi Mojon, in published and unpublished works: literary works, Florence, Le Monnier, 1925, p. 474-492
- Maria Teresa Mori, Salotti. 2003. *The Sociability of the Elite in Italy in the Nineteenth Century*. Rome, Carocci
- Arianna Arisi Rota, Milesi, Bianca, in *Biographical Dictionary of Italian*, vol. 74, Rome, Italian Encyclopedia Institute, 2010
- Boneschi, Marta. 2010. *La donna segreta: storia di Metilde Viscontini Dembowski*. Venezia: Marsilio. ISBN 978-88-317-0730-5

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