A recognition and homage to Giulia Adinlfi, an Italian intellectual who came to live in Barcelona in 1957, where she developed her career as a Hispanist. Here she reaffirmed her communist, anti-Francoist and feminist commitment until her death in 1980.

When Giulia Adinolfi moved from Naples to Barcelona in 1957, she was a woman with her own professional project based on study, a job that gave her financial independence and a moral political commitment that guided her. A woman who cultivated the knowledge needed to create and recreate life and ties between people.

Giulia Adinolfi and Manuel Sacristán had got married in Naples and chose Barcelona to live in as for them the fight against Francoism was a priority. Owing to their clandestine situation and the repression of the dictatorship, their decision meant that the life they aspired to was not easy, however it was a full life.

A trained teacher and Hispanist, she worked in Barcelona as a primary school, secondary school and university teacher, at the same time developing her research into Antoni de Capmany and, later, María de Cazalla. Giulia Adinolfi took part in the creation of the Moviment de Dones Democràtiques, sponsored by the PSUC and, later, in the teachers’ struggle for a democratic university. She was a founding member of the CC. OO teaching trade union. She also took part in the city’s cultural and political life collaborating with the clandestine magazine Nous Horitzons, with Materiales and with Mientras tanto.

For women editors, reading her latest texts in the Mientras tanto (1979-80) was a revelation that touched their lives decisively. Today they pay back this debt to Giulia Adinolfi Sellitti by bringing together her texts in a book, in dialogue with other women who had a living relationship with her or have discovered her through her texts.