Italian musician Renata Borgatti was BOTD in 1894. Born in Bologna, she was the daughter of famed Wagnerian tenor Giuseppe Borgatti. Originally trained as a ballerina, she abandoned dance to become a concert pianist, specialising in the works of Claude Debussy. She settled in Capri in the early 1900s, becoming a central figure in the island’s gay subculture, wearing her hair short and living openly as a butch dyke. She had a year long relationship with Italian socialite Baroness Mimi Franchetti, remaining together until Franchetti left her for the American artist Romaine Brooks. She then had an affair with English writer Faith Compton Mackenzie, whose husband wrote a satirical roman-a-clef, Extraordinary Women, about the lesbian intrigues of Capri. In 1920, Borgatti returned to the mainland, and had an affair with Brooks, who was at the time in a relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney, followed by a longer relationship with American heiress Winnaretta Singer. She had an intense professional relationship with violinist Olga Rudge, arousing the jealousy of Rudge’s husband, the poet Ezra Pound, who described her piano technique as “plonking”. She continued travelling, performing and teaching music, until her death in Rome in 1964, aged 70.