Cornelia Casari was born in Castro (Brescia) on the 22nd of September, 1871. After obtaining a high-level teaching diploma and a gymnasium license, she continued her studies at the high school in Bergamo and then in Florence where she graduated in Italian Literature in 1898. During her university years, she also attended the School of Education and the School of Paleography. In 1901, she was entrusted with teaching Italian at the Normale School in Venice.
Primarily committed to Dante exegesis, she was the author of essays published in the "Giornale Dantesco" and other writings including "Appunto sul valore del romanzo Quo Vadis di Sienkiewicz" (1900), "Francesco Petrarca" (1904), "Notizie intorno a Luigi Marsili" (1904), and "Jacopo Soldani, satirico del Seicento" (1904). She died in Venice on the 19th of March, 1905.
