Luisa Bergalli (1703 in

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- 1779 in Venice), was a Venetian writer and translator. Bergalli was married to

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in 1738. She and her husband translated novels, plays and other work. She herself translated

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and

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into Italian. Bergalli produced poems, compositions, comic and tragic plays as well as a novel, ''Le avventure del poeta'', 1730.

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* 1703 births 1779 deaths 18th-century Italian women writers 18th-century translators 18th-century Venetian writers 18th-century Venetian women Members of the Academy of Arcadians {{Italy-writer-stub