Savio was born Olimpia Rossi in
Turin to the
Ligurian nobleman Giovan Battista Rossi and his wife the
Biellese Joséphine Ferrero. Her father was the director of the Royal College of the Provinces of Turin and her mother was considered among the smartest women of her time. She was educated by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and was a debutant in 1830, at a festival for Princess
Maria Cristina of Savoy. She is remembered by a road in Mirandola, a province of Modena, Italy which is called the Via Olimpia Rossi Savio. ==Bibliography==