Maddalena Scrovegni

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Maddalena Scrovegni
Bornc.1356
Died1429 (aged 7273)
NationalityItalian
Occupation Humanist
Years active1380s-1429 [1]

Maddalena Scrovegni (1356 ca.-1429) was an Italian humanist.

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Biography

Maddalena Scrovegni was from a very wealthy family from Padua, Italy; she was the only daughter in the family. Her father was Ugolino da Scrovegni. She married Francesco Manfredi, a knight, in 1376. Manfredi died by 1381. [2]

In 1383, Scrovegni wrote a letter to the Carraresi family to exonerate her family after they were exiled in Padua. The family was welcomed back into Paduan society under the Carraresi patron, Francesco il Vecchio. [2] She was the subject of Antoni Loschi's poem The Temple of Chastity, written in 1389. In the poem, Loschi depicts Scrovegni as Chastity and that her study or home was a temple. [3] The poem was commissioned by the House of Visconti in response to Scrovegni's letter. [2]

Scrovegni, her father, and her brothers were exiled to Venice in 1390. In Venice, she founded a hospice. She died in Venice in 1429. [1]

Scrovegni communicated with Angela Nogarola. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "SCROVEGNI, Maddalena degli". Treccani. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jane Stevenson (2005). Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 157–158. ISBN   978-0-19-818502-4.
  3. Jean Spence; Sarah Aiston; Maureen M. Meikle (10 September 2009). Women, Education, and Agency, 1600–2000. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN   978-1-135-85584-0.

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