Maria Teresa Carini Rocchi

Italian anarcha-feminist and socialist, who became involved in the workers movement in São Paulo alongside fellow anarcha-feminists Ernestina Lesina, María Lopes and Tecla Fabbri (Teresa Fabri). Brought up in a bourgeois family, Maria Teresa Carini dutifully married a clarinetist Guido Rocchi when she was twenty-six and with him travelled to Brazil. There they settled in the country's capital, where her burgeoning social conscience led her to attend workers' meetings and protest actions. She was the co-author, with María Lopes and Tecla Fabbri, of the manifesto 'As Jovens costureiras de São Paulo' (The Young Seamstresses of São Paul) published in the anarchist periodical 'A Terra Livre' on July 28, 1906, which encouraged the capital's seamstresses to denounce their degrading living conditions, long hours and low wages.