Liceo veronica gambara biography
Liceo veronica gambara biography
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Veronica Gambara
Italian poet and politician
Veronica Gambara (29 or 30 November 1485[1][2] – 13 June 1550) was an Italian poet and politician.
She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550.
Biography
Born in Pralboino (now in the Province of Brescia), in Lombardy, Italy, Gambara came from a distinguished family, one of the seven children of Count Gianfrancesco da Gambara and Alda Pio da Carpi.[1] Her family contained a number of distinguished female intellectuals, including her great-aunts, the humanist poets Ginevre and Isotta Nogarola.[3]: 164 Veronica was also a niece of Emilia Pia, the principal female interlocutor of Baldessare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano.[4]: 160–61
Gambara received a humanist education, studying Latin, Greek, philosophy, theology and scripture.[4]: 160 [3]: 170 In 1502, at the age o