It was Adriana Valerio to give birth to the Pasquale Valerio Foundation for the research on History of Women, to make possible the arising and the bringing out of female presence in Western societies.
Established in June 2003, thanks to Adriana's brother, Francesco Valerio, and dedicated to their father Pasquale (1916 - 1963) - a very fine scholar of Dante's work and of mystics as well - the Foundation has been thought to give a new impulse to the research, the preservation and the publication of Sources and Documents, which are pertinent to the history of women, starting from those which are kept in Archives and Libraries of Southern Italy.
The Foundation intends to support all those studies which can allow a wider knowledge of female contribution to the life of the society and of the Churches (social works, political engagement, economics, arts, interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, charismatic role in the society, etc.) through appropriate scientific methodologies (philological, historical, critical, social, religious, theological methodologies, and so on…).
Thus, we want to create an Archives of memory, to make visible female tradition, both religious and laic, thanks:

a) to the publication of sources and documents, which will be written into several languages;

b) the creation of catalogues raisonné of Archives and Bibliographies;

c) the publication of books and information supports;

d) the organization of national and international meetings and conferences.