After graduating in philosophy at the University of Milan, and after a few years teaching in her alma mater and at the University of Ferrara, she was professor of General Pedagogy and History of Education at the University of Pavia from 1976 to 2005.[1]
Her early interests were towards psychopedagogy and later on experimentalist themes, then from the early seventies she mainly focused her work on the history of infancy, conducting researches on the condition and image of childhood in the past, even through the collection and analysis of childhood diaries.[1] Among her major works there was the book Storia dell'infanzia, that she wrote in collaboration with the French historian Dominique Julia.[2]
Becchi died on 3 January 2022, at the age of 91.[1]
