Licia Collobi was born in Trieste, still under Asburgic domination, on August 24th 1914, to Alberto Golubic (then italianized as Collobi) and Silvia De Domazetovich. She spent the first part of her infancy in Klagenfurt where her father, injured at an arm in Galizia in 1915, had been transferred as Commander of the Military Warehouse. Back in Trieste with her family after the war, being now bilingual Italian and German, Licia attended there Primary School, Secondary School and all the five years of Italian High School.
Given her mother's poor health, ill with tuberculosis and recurrently hospitalized at the Bressanone Sanatorium, Licia attended in Bressanone the second,third and fourth year of High School, giving her exam of admission to the fifth year in Trieste, where she graduated with excellent marks. Mother and daughter went back to Trieste in 1932 and by the end of the year Licia also graduated as a piano player at the Music Conservatory.
Given her mother's poor health, ill with tuberculosis and recurrently hospitalized at the Bressanone Sanatorium, Licia attended in Bressanone the second,third and fourth year of High School, giving her exam of admission to the fifth year in Trieste, where she graduated with excellent marks. Mother and daughter went back to Trieste in 1932 and by the end of the year Licia also graduated as a piano player at the Music Conservatory.