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526 are also many letters of hers extant, written in a very elegant stile. After the death of her husband she became a nun at Urbino. F.C.

deeply versed in all speculative sciences and liberal arts. She sustained twice public theses, and was patronized by the first people. She had also some talent for poetry, as she wrote a prologue, in verse, to L'Innocence Reconnue, a work in prose, which she published 1660. She became afterwards a nun at Modena, where she led an exemplary life. F. C.

of her pieces are scattered in the poetical collections of the 17th century, and they are published in the Rime di Cinquante Poëtesse, printed at Naples.

received an education suitable to her birth; and gave early discoveries of a genius above her years. She had the misfortune to lose her mother while yet