Emma Castelnuovo was born in Rome on 12 December 1913, the fifth child of Elbina and
Guido Castelnuovo; her father and her mother's brother
Federigo Enriques were both professors of mathematics. Castelnuovo graduated from the
University of Rome in 1936 with a thesis on
algebraic geometry. After this she worked as a librarian at the same university. She won a permanent position there in 1938, but later that year, Italy passed new laws preventing Jews from holding state positions, preventing her from taking it. She died in Rome on 13 April 2014 and was buried in the Verano cemetery with her father and mother. ==Selected works==