Chiara Frugoni (4 February 1940 – 9 April 2022) was an Italian historian and academic, specialising in the Middle Ages and church history. She was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1994 for her essay, Francesco e l'invenzione delle stimmate.
Chiara Frugoni
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Frugoni in 2011
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| Born | (1940-02-04)4 February 1940 |
| Died | 9 April 2022(2022-04-09) (aged 82)
Pisa, Italy
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| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer(s) | University of Pisa University of Rome Tor Vergata |
| Awards | Viareggio Prize (1994) |
Chiara Frugoni was born in Pisa on 4 February 1940. Her father was the medievalist, Arsenio Frugoni.[1] She spent time during childhood and youth in a sanatorium due to suffering from tuberculosis.
Frugoni graduated from Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 1964 with a thesis entitled Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana (the Three Living and the Three Dead in Italian medieval tradition), published two years later in the "Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei".[2] In it, she searched for a working method that took equal account of both texts and images, a method she always considered important,[3] in line with her conviction that "the image speaks".[4]
She married Salvatore Settis in 1965, with whom she had three children.