Women Comenius Garden

Women Comenius Garden
Lisbon, 08 - 13 April 2013
Doina is a Romanian musical tune style, with MiddleEastern roots, present in Romanian traditional music.
It was discovered in 1912 in Transylvania by the Hungarian
composer Béla Bartók. It’s an improvisational, highly ornamental tune, and it’s
included in UNESCO’s list of Intangible
Cultural Heritage.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian Nobelprize laureate neurologist,
born on the 22nd April 1909,
in Turin. During World War II,
she worked in an improvised
lab at her house. She won a Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine, together with Stanley
Cohen for their discovery of the nerve growth
factor. She also served as a Senator for Life
from 2001 until her death, on the 30th December 2012.
Desislava of Bulgaria was a daughter of
Czar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria and her
second wife Sarah Theodora. Her mother
was Jewish, but was converted to orthodox
Christianity when she got married. Desislava was the sister of Czar Ivan Shishman; Desislava lived with
her family in Tarnovo and
she married Constantine,
the Prince of Wallachia.
Defne Samyeli was born on 17th March 1972 in Istanbul.
She is a journalist, reporter, and columnist. She studied
Chemistry and business management in the Bogazici. In
1991 she became famous after she won
the third place in a very important
beauty contest, and that encouraged her
to start studying journalism.
Aina Moll Marquès is a philologist from Minorca,
in Spain. In 1953, she graduated in
Romanic Philology. Aina was a
member of the Catalan Sociolinguistic Group and of the First Committee of the General Council of
State Transfers between islands. Between 1980
and 1988, she was the General Director of the Linguistic Politic .and since 1993, a member of the
Institute of Catalan Studies. On 8th May of 2012
she received an honorary PhD from the Universidad Abierta de Cataluña.
D. Filipa de Lencastre (Philippa of Lancaster),
was born in 1360. She is known for her marriage to D. João I (John I) of Portugal, which
sealed the alliance between this country and
England, and for being the mother of the Illustrious Generation (Ínclita Geração), princes
and princesses who played crucial roles in Portuguese history.
She influenced both the Portuguese and English courts. She
died in 1415, of plague.
Maria Callas, one of the most notorious voices of the 20th century, was born in New York in 1923. Her parents were Greek, and
her mother took her to Greece when she was fourteen. She was a
soprano, singing both classic and bel canto opera,
and became known as La Divina, due to her musical and dramatic talents. She had excellent technique and an impressive voice range. She died in
1977, at age 53.