Obviously, no current health professional would advise reproducing this way of eating — especially for nutritional balance reasons. But Emma's example pushes us above all to rethink our conception of ageing well.
An independent personality, well ahead of his time
What is just as striking about Emma's career is the strength of her character. In 1938, in an Italian town with a marked conservatism, she committed an act that scandalized those around her: she left a relationship that made her unhappy and regained her freedom. Alone. Without looking back.
"I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," she said in an interview. A strikingly modern sentence, uttered decades before feminism imposed itself in the public debate.
