Camilla Soardi (active ca. 1540), a gentlewoman of
Casale Monferrato
Casale Monferrato () is a town in the Piedmont region of Italy, in the province of Alessandria. It is situated about east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrat hills. Beyond the river lies the v ...
in north-west
Italy
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, was a Renaissance poet, identified as a notable female literary figure by her appearance in both the ''Teatro delle Donne letterate'' of Della-Chiesa and Marcello Alberti's ''Storia delle Donne scienziate''. Gioseffantonio Morano describes her as a virtuoso with a most subtle genius.
See also
Margarita Balliana Margarita Balliana (''fl''. 1680) was a Renaissance woman of letters from Casale Monferrato in north-west Italy. She received a good education in philosophy and history and was described by Gioseffantonio Morano as ‘illustrious for the fineness of ...
and
Margarita Bobba Margarita Bobba ('' fl''. 1560), was a writer and noblewoman of Casale Monferrato, described by Gioseffantonio Morano as possessing an elevated wit and being well versed both in the Latin and Italian languages and in the art of poetry. She published ...
, also women poets of sixteenth-century Casale.
Notes
Sources
*Gioseffantonio Morano
''Catalogo degli illustri scrittori di Casale: e di tutto il ducato di Monferrato e delle opere da' medesimi composte, e date alla luce''(Asti: Stamperia del Pila, 1771), p. 93.
People from Casale Monferrato
Italian Renaissance writers
Women writers (Renaissance)
16th-century Italian women writers
16th-century Italian writers
Italian women poets
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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