She was born to teacher parents, who entrusted her to her maternal grandparents in the first years of life, due to work commitments. On 9 May 1915, he received his first communion in the chapel of the Pious house of mercy, Salita Quintino Sella, and on the following 27 May, confirmation. At the outbreak of the First World War, he witnesses the departure of his father and uncle to the front.
While attending the Costa high school, on February 27, 1920, her nine-year-old brother Enrico died and, believing that after death there was nothingness, she professed herself an atheist. She enrolled in the Faculty of Letters. On 8 December of the same year, following a violent inner crisis, after having confessed and received communion, she began a new life based on the motto: "Lord, if you are there, make yourself known". In 1923 she joined Fuci. She thinks of the Benedictine vocation, but she has to give it up because she is ill. She then becomes an oblate of the same Order. In 1933 she concluded her Benedictine novitiate with her profession as oblate of the monastery in San Paolo fuori le Mura, in Rome. The Trinitarian indwelling becomes the center of her life and of her mission in the Church. In 1936, she has frequent visions of the Trinity as well as persecutions by the devil. She leaves Milan and returns to La Spezia.
From 5 to 15 October 1946, he completes a cycle of spiritual exercises in Genoa and thinks of creating a priestly family, for which he will offer, in 1947, the life of a hermit. Meanwhile he is involved in the movement of Catholic graduates. He dies after years of illness and loneliness.
She was beatified in La Spezia on 10 June 2017.
