Daniel Joseph Kirwan’s Palace and Hovel: Phases of London Life, first published in 1878, mentions ‘Pitteri, the graceful and world-renowned danseuse’ appearing at the Alhambra in London’s Leicester Square.

The Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University holds nine carte-de-visite portraits identified as Mlle. Pitteri, presumably the same sitter. The portraits are catalogued under ‘female dancers’ but no first name is provided for the sitter.

A ‘Giovannina Pitteri’ is listed as a dancer who appeared at La Fenice in Venice. According to another Internet source, she appeared there on 9 November 1856 in the ballet La rosiera, choreographed by Giovanni Casati and inserted into Donizetti’s Gemma di Vergy. According to Ivor Guest’s The Ballet of the Second Empire (1953), a Marianna Pitteri was a principal dancer in the divertissement in Roméo et Juliette in 1859.