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Rh , it is said, with greater glory than any of the kings her predecessors; one of the pyramids is supposed to have been raised to her memory.

was a great philosopher and divine, mistress of several languages, and of an eloquence surpassing all the orators of Italy. She made a most elaborate speech at the council of Mantua, convened by Pope Pius II. that all Christian princes might enter into a league against the Turks, she wrote eloquent epistles not only to him, but to his predecessor Nicholas V., and a Dialogue, in which was disputed which was most guilty, Adam or Eve. Some of her works coming to the sight of Cardinal Bessarion, that illustrious patron of literature was so taken with her genius, that he made a journey from Rome to Verona, purely to pay her a visit. It is to be regretted, that 566 MS. Letters of hers upon different subjects, which a modern author affirmed he saw in the library of de Thou, are now supposed to be lost.

seems by her writings to have been educated in