Giulia Turco, or Giulia Turco Lazzari (; 1848–1912), was a

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ess best known as a

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and writer in her native

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...

, Italy. She was married to the bolognese musician Raffaello Lazzari. In the 1850s she wrote for the magazine ''Rivista delle signorine'', where she published a series of articles and short stories under the pseudonym "Jacopo Turco". Here she began a series of works which can be classified as lifestyle guides for young women and expounded the virtues of travel, charity, floral design, natural medicines and cooking.Donne, cucina e ricettari
/ref> Her cultural interests later brought her to support artists and musicians in both her native Trento and

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, where she also had a home. Among these were the painter Eugenio Prati, a long-time friend, and for whom Turco's diary provides great insight. Another was the naturalist artist

Bartolomeo Bezzi Bartolomeo Bezzi (1851–1923) was an Italian painter. Biography Bartolomeo Bezzi was born in Fucine di Ossana (Trento), then in the Austrian Empire. Having lost his father as a child, Bezzi lived with an uncle and enrolled at the Brera Acad ...

, whose "attachment to his native land is a constant aspect of his life and during his stays in Trentino he was a frequent visitor to the cultural circle of Baroness Giulia Turco Lazzari, in such company as Eugenio Prati, Luigi Nono, Angelo dall'Oca Bianca and many other artists, critics, writers and musicians".The Appeal Of Nature In The Work Of Bartolomeo Bezzi
/ref> By the end of the 19th century, her main focus was on

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and she created a large recipe file and catalogue maintained between 1899 and 1901 with

Pellegrino Artusi Pellegrino Artusi (; Forlimpopoli, near Forlì, August 4, 1820 – Florence, March 30, 1911) was an Italian businessman and writer, best known as the author of the 1891 cookbook '' La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene'' (''Science in ...

. In 1904 Artusi published a practical manual for the kitchen, with over 3,000 recipes and 150 tables, simply entitled ''Ecco il tuo libro di cucina'' (Here is your kitchen book). Turco's participation was anonymous and was only later revealed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Turco, Giulia 1848 births 1912 deaths People from Trento People from the County of Tyrol Italian non-fiction writers 19th-century Italian women writers 20th-century Italian women writers