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Particolare del viso di Lina Merlin (elaborazione grafica Venipedia/Bazzmann)

His name is mainly linked to Law No. 75 of 20 February 1958 by which legalised prostitution was abolished in Italy.
It is for this above all that we remember her, but Lina Merlin should also be remembered for many other fundamental interventions in the social and political field, such as the abolition of the writing N.N. after the name in documents, which attested to the infamous and discriminating status of unknown paternity or that she did not want to be recognised.
Socialist partisan, member of the CNL National Confederation of Labour, one of the 21 women in the Constituent Assembly and the only woman elected to the Senate in the second legislature, she carried out all her battles for women's rights in Palazzo Madama, with the approval of fundamental laws, so much so that she was nicknamed the 'senator'.
Determined and inflexible, she made up for her naivety with intransigence. She had a mild and gentle character, but without uncertainties and relentlessness.
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He said of himself: "I am a patient dynamic." He also said: "Giving in for love is all very well, but for sport or curiosity is bad. The morality we call conventional is not always conventional: it is the result of a civilisation."

Lina Merlin, born Angelina Merlin, was born in Pozzonovo, in the province of Padua, on October 15, 1887, into a petty bourgeois family. At the age of four, she moved to Chioggia in the house of her maternal grandmother. She was the first of nine siblings. She remained in Chioggia until she graduated from a master's degree. She graduated in French language and literature at the University of Padua and obtained a chair in French at a school in the same city.

In 1926 she was removed from the list of tenured teachers because she refused to take an oath of allegiance to the fascist r

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