I M Chaney Antique Furniture has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
She wrote copiously (in English and Italian) as both a journalist and a biographer having written biographies of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini, to be sure; but also biographies of Dr. Agostino Bertani, Carlo Cattaneo (with Alberto Mario), Giuseppe Dolfo, Alberto Mario (with Giosuè Carducci), Giovanni Nicotera. She was gathering material for several more at the time of her death
I M Chaney Antique Furniture has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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