Elena Barozzi (1514 - 1580) [1] was a celebrated Venetian patrician.
Elena Barozzi (1514 - 1580) [1] was a celebrated Venetian patrician.
Elena's reputation for her elegance is praised by the poets and painters of her century. Titian and Giorgio Vasari portrayed it. [2] The poet Lelio Capilupi dedicated the ballad to her Ne l'amar e fredd'onde si bagna. [3] The poet Fortunio Spira comparing it to the beauties of classical antiquity, [4] also the writer Lodovico Domenichi describes her as Greek for beauty and Roman for personality likes Lucretia. [5]
Elena Barozzi, for her fine intellectuality was admired and courted by the finest men of her time. She had a relationship and a daughter with Lorenzino de' Medici, the daughter named Lorenzina born in 1547, future wife of Giulio Colonna. [6]
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