- Harold Brodkey defined her as an elegant and sophisticated woman but secretly very strong, in the tradition of the Borgias.
- According to Ottavio Rosati Pivano "played" her voice like a piano. And this, along with its culture, could make Pivano irresistible.
- She was also the first Italian cultural personality who in her life received from a patron (Luciano Benetton) the tribute of a Foundation and Library in her name with a private apartment attached.
- Pivano was the only Italian writer to whom two documentaries were in program in the same Cinema Festival (2001 - Turin): Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) and Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat (2001).
- One of the mysteries of his personality is that Pivano never drank a drop of alcohol and never used any kind of hallucinogens or drugs, despite the addictions of the authors she wrote about.
- She is the protagonist of Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) a videoplay about the hidden part of her life in Rome.
- At the 2001 Torino Cinema Festival, Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) was protected by a jungian synchronicity: Pivano had decided to present not the Rosati's movie (because it was "too much romantic") but just the film by Luca Facchini, scheduled two days after. But, as soon as she set foot on the red carpet, a fire broke out which blocked the evening.
- Her eightieth birthday was celebrated at the Genoa Opera House where she received a huge birthday cake, the standing ovation of 4000 spectators, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic and with Daniel Oren on the podium directing "An American in Paris" by Gerswin.
- With her participation to Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) Pivano collaborated in introducing in Italy the Psycho-Cinema formula by Jacob Levi Moreno. She was the first promoters of the Italian Psychodrama Theater: Il Teatro del Tempo.
- In 2003 the Fernanda Pivano award was established, which is awarded every year to those who distinguished themselves for having carried out research, written or brought exceptional contributions to society and the world of culture with the assignment of a work by the master Arnaldo Pomodoro performed specifically for the great writer.
- When Pivano began to frequent Ginsberg's writers in America, Neal Cassady asked her: "Don't drink, don't smoke, not goals, but then what did you come to do?".
- Milena Vukotic and Piera Degli Esposti are among the Italian actresses who played her role for Ottavio Rosati.
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