to complete that specialization) in Florence at Meyer Children's Hospital, where she met the famous Anna Kuliscioff, founder of the Italian Socialist Party together with Filippo Turati. Her vocation in becoming a pediatrician was due to her inability to bear children, after suffering a serious peritonitis. In 1899, after her specialization, she moved to Milan and looked for a job with the support of a group of famous feminists, who she got to know thanks to Anna Kuliscioff: Alessandrina Ravizza, Paolina Shiff, Linda Malnati, Ersilia Majno Bronzin. It was Ersilia Majno Bronzin that helped her gain a job as a tax doctor at the Women Workers Society (Società Operaia Femminile). In 1902 she was hired by the Ambulatorio Della Poliambulanza di Porta Venezia where she remained for 40 years working as a pediatrician and in the same year she bought her first house in Via Tadino. Her particular interest was towards children suffering from malnutrition. She also helped her patients' mothers gain independence against their violent husbands and cured women workers who were sick because of toxic fumes inhaled in factories. The same year she married doctor Domenico della Rovere, an anatomopathologist, with whom she did not have any children but cared for her young patients as if they were her own. September 12, 1902 the news of their wedding were published in the newspaper "La provincia di Mantova". Amalia as Dottor Amal and Petronilla She gave some speeches at the University of Milan on the topic of tuberculosis and became personal doctor and friend of the author Ada Negri, with whom she exchanged letters. In Milan she worked as a volunteer giving free care and advices to the people in need. In 1926 she published a column on health and hygiene under the pseudonym "Dottor Amal" in La Domenica del Corriere, after the request of Carlo Zanicotti, the head of the journal. It was Eugenio Balzan, director of Il Corriere della Sera, who introduced her to journalism. The column was titled "Il parere del medico", in which she used anonymity in order to reach as many readers as possible, being aware of the fact that a male name of a doctor would mean more opportunities for her career. Under that name she wrote a book, "Le piante alimentari e medicinali del Dottor Amal", in which she explains the importance of using herbs to treat diseases. Her contributions, aimed at