Facunda Speratti
{{Short description|Paraguayan independence activist}}
Josefa Facunda Speratti was a Paraguayan independence activist who participated in the May 1811 revolution. She later married Fulgencio Yegros, the first head of state of an independent Paraguay.{{sfn|García López|2013}}
Life
Facunda Speratti was the daughter of José Tomás Speratti, who had immigrated from Bergamo, Italy to Paraguay before his daughter's birth.{{sfn|ABC Color|2004}}
She lived in the house of the Martínez Sáenz brothers, where the independence conspirators met to prepare the uprising, and was the girlfriend of Fulgencio Yegros, then one of the military officers fighting for Paraguayan independence. Together with Juana María de Lara, she helped prepare for the rebellion that took place on May 14 and 15, 1811, when the independence of Paraguay was proclaimed.{{sfn|García López|2013}}
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- {{cite news|ref={{harvid|ABC Color|2004}}|author=|title=Adela Speratti: Biografía|url=http://www.abc.com.py/articulos/adela-speratti-biografia-795291.html|access-date=19 November 2017|publisher=ABC Color|date=12 November 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119063816/http://www.abc.com.py/articulos/adela-speratti-biografia-795291.html|archive-date=19 November 2017|location=Asunción, Paraguay|language=Spanish|trans-title=Adela Speratti Biography}}
- {{cite book|ref={{harvid|García López|2013}}|author=García López, Ana Bélen|title=Las heroínas silenciadas en las independencias hispanoamericanas|chapter=Paraguay|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZhODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89|publisher=|date=1988|location=Asunción, Paraguay|pages=87–89|isbn=9788491126799|language=Spanish|trans-title=The silent heroines of Latin American independence}}
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