Lucrezia Gonzaga
Lucrezia Gonzaga di Gazzuolo (1522 – 11 February 1576) was an Italian noblewoman known for her literary talents, and her association with Matteo Bandello.[1][2] Bandello taught her mathematics, astronomy, rhetoric and logic, and wrote poetry in her honour, during his stay in Castel Goffredo at the court of Luigi Gonzaga. A volume of her letters was published in Venice in 1552; some scholars believe Ortensio Lando was the author and not just the editor, though this has been disputed.[3]
She was born in Bozzolo to Pirro Gonzaga, lord of Gazzuolo, member of a secondary branch of the Gonzaga family, and Camilla Bentivoglio.[4] At the age of 14 she married Paolo Manfrone, and is sometimes known as Lucrezia Gonzaga Manfrona. She died in 1576 in Mantua.
Works
- Lettere della molto illustre sig. la s.ra donna Lucretia Gonzaga da Gazuolo con gran diligentia raccolte, & a gloria del sesso feminile nuouamente in luce poste. Venice, 1552 (Collected by Ortensio Lando?)
- Lucrezia Gonzaga, Lettere. Vita quotidiana e sensibilità religiosa nel Polesine di metà ‘500, a cura di Renzo Bragantini e Primo Griguolo, Minelliana, Rovigo, 2009.
Sources
- Ginevra Canonici Fachini, Prospetto biografico delle donne italiane rinomate in letteratura, 1824
- Mary Hays, Female Biography; or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of all Ages and Countries (volume 4), 1803
- Giuseppe Maffei, Storia della letteratura italiana, 1834
References
- ^ Cox, Virginia (2008-06-16). Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8819-9.
- ^ Wagner, John A. (2022-02-04). Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 979-8-216-16267-4.
- ^ Meredith K Ray, 'Textual Collaboration and Spiritual Partnership in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Ortensio Lando and Lucrezia Gonzaga' in "Renaissance Quarterly", 62.3 (2009), pp. 694-747.
- ^ Ray, Meredith K. (2023-12-22). Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-003-81389-7.
