Vittoria Aganoor

Who was Vittoria Aganoor?

Vittoria Aganoor was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry.

She was born in Padova, the seventh child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina Pacini. Edoardo Aganoor's family was of wealthy Armenian nobility. They had moved to Persia in the eleventh century, settling in Julfa. Later on, the family, acting on the advice of Mechitarist fathers, migrated to France, where they began to live in Paris. In France, they founded two notable educational institutions for Armenian nobility: The Collège Raphaël in Paris, followed by the Collegio Moorat in Venice.