Keywords

• Bianca Virginia Camagni was an actress
• director and producer from Milan that worked in the Italian movie industry from 1914 to 1922. She was a a very special kind of Diva
• at variance with the mainstream of the times
• because of her personality
• films
• collaborations and extensive network of relationships that she built around her. Camagni launched an appreciated career as a screenwriter and director and then she formed her own production house
• Camagni Films. Even knowing the incredible success that she achieved by critics
• the name of Bianca Virginia Camagni is mainly remembered in the cliché of a Diva that wanted to be a director. The waste of her movies and written testimonies about her experience helped to suppress her authorship. But this hole in the fonts and the reason of her discontinuity in the Italian movie industry acquires more subjective aspects and a personal decision that becames even a political value