Levina Buoncuore Urbino

Levina Buoncuore Urbino or Lavinia Buoncuore Urbino (died 1888) was a writer and translator in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the 19th-century. Among her published works was An American Woman in Europe (1869), a frank account of her travels in Europe 1866-1869; she also wrote children's books and a guide to art technique. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym: L. Boncoeur, L. B. Cuore, or L. Buoncuore.
Her husband, S.R. Urbino, was a bookseller and publisher of foreign literature and language-instruction books. She served as an officer of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and supported the New England Hospital for Women and Children.

• Sunshine in the palace and cottage, or, Bright extremes in human life. Boston: Heath & Groves, 1854
• Miss Kate: or, the village teacher ; a true character. Boston: New England Sabbath School Union, 1854. "Revised by the committee of publication" Google books
• The home angel. Boston: Wentworth & Co., 1858 Google books
• L. Boncoeur (i.e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino). L'instructeur de l'enfrance: (A first book for children), 2nd ed. Boston: S.R. Urbino, 1864
• E.M. Sewell, L.B. Urbino. Dictation exercises. Boston: S.R. Urbino; NY: Holt, 1867. Google books
• An American woman in Europe: The journal of two years and a half sojourn in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 Google books
• L.B. Urbino and Henry Day. Art recreations: being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, watercolor painting ... with valuable receipts for preparing materials. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1869. "Splendidly illustrated" Google books
• L.B. Cuore [i.e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino]. Italian conversation-grammar, 5th ed. Boston: S.R. Urbino, 1870 Google books
• Biographical sketches of eminent musical composers. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1876 Google books

Translations by L.B. Urbino

• Céline Fallet; L.B. Urbino, translator. The old masters: The princes of art: painters, sculptors, and engravers. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870. Google books

• Copies of Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage were in the libraries of Boston's Mercantile Library Association and the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Massachusetts. cf. Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Boston, 1854; Catalogue of the library of the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Mass., 1855