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Benedetta Barzini born 22 September in Porto Santo Stefano [1] is an Italian photomodel, journalist, writer, educator, feminist. In the s she made a brilliant career as a model in the United States, shooting for Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Ugo Mulas, Henry Clarke photographer , Andy Warhol, became the first Italian on the cover of American Vogue and in Barzini's photograph graced the cover of the first issue of Italian Vogue, but by the end of the decade was disillusioned with the fashion world.

Upon returning to Milan, she became a member of the Italian Communist Party and a radical feminist. Author of over 5 books, she lectured at three universities for twenty years. Benedetta's sibling Ludina was only one year older. Giannalisa Feltrinelli had a son from her previous marriage, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.

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After leaving the family, Luigi Barzini didn't even congratulate Benedetta on her birthday, and when travelling to New York her mother rented herself an apartment on the 60th floor of a skyscraper, and her children a separate flat on the third, where a nanny lived with them. The relationship with her mother was so difficult that Benedetta began to suffer from anorexia and other psychological problems at the age of Caught for the third time in a clinic for anorexics in Geneva, she sought help from the young Italian consul Antonello Pietromarca, who gave her a passport and helped her go to the juvenile court, where Benedetta received documents so that her mother could no longer interfere with her affairs.

Barzini was discovered at age 20 on the streets of Rome [4] by Consuelo Crespi in ; Diana Vreeland soon thereafter received photographs of Barzini and sent a telegram asking if she could come to Manhattan to shoot for American Vogue [4] with Irving Penn. She began training at the Actors Studio around that time, [5] and in the process became romantically involved with, and later engaged to, New York poet and media artist Gerard Malanga, an early collaborator of Andy Warhol.

In she returned to Milan, tired, by her own admission, of being in America as a mere prop and a numb witness to the life that was going on around her, with no one interested in her as a person.