Isotta Brembati

Isotta Brembati (c. 1530 – February 24, 1586), also known as Isotta Brembati Grumelli, was an Italian poet and countess.

Isotta Brembati
Brembati painted by Giovanni Battista Moroni, circa 1560.
Born1530
Bergamo, Italy
DiedFebruary 24, 1586
Bergamo, Italy
NationalityItalian

Biography
Another painting of Brembati

Born in Bergamo in 1530[1] to Isotta Ludovico and Lucas Brembati,[2] Brembati was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian.[3] Initially married to Count Lecio Secco d'Aragona di Calcio, she remarried to Gian Gerolamo Grumelli in 1561. Brembati and Grumelli gained significant local influence as a couple and were painted twice by Giovanni Battista Moroni.[4]

Legacy

Brembati gained widespread acclaim for her poetry. After her death in 1586, a book of poems titled Rime funerali di diversi illustri ingegni composte in volgare et latina favella in morte della molto illustre signora Isotta Brembati-Grumelli was published to commemorate her.[3]

References
  1. Cox, Virginia (2008). Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650. JHU Press. p. 86. ISBN 0801888190.
  2. Stevenson, Jane (2005). Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 0198185022.
  3. Chaudon, Louis Mayeul (1810). Dictionnaire universel, historique, critique, et bibliographique; ou, Histoire abrégée et impartiale des hommes de toutes les nations qui se sont rendus célèbres, illustres ou fameux ... depuis la plus haute antiquité jusquʹa nos jours: avec les dieux et les héros des abbés Brotier et Mercier de Saint-Leger, etc., etc, Volumes 3-4. Mame frères. pp. 270–271.
  4. Mansueto, Donato; Calogero, Elena Laura (2007). The Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays. Librairie Droz. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0852618328.
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