Nicoletta Pasquale, known also as Coletta Pasquale or Paschale (
Latin
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: ''Nicoletta Paschalis'') () was an Italian poet.
Biography
Nicoletta Pasquale was a noblewoman of
Messina
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, a poet and intellectual. Little is known about her education and private life. She was mentioned by the historian
Antonio Mongitore in his biographical work ''Bibliotheca Sicula'', which in turn was used as a source for the work ''L'istoria della volgar poesia'' (History of vernacular poetry) by the literary critic
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, first published in 1698.
Works
Nicoletta Pasquale left a legacy of several
sonnet
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s and a
sestina
A sestina (, from ''sesto'', sixth; Old Occitan: ''cledisat'' ; also known as ''sestine'', ''sextine'', ''sextain'') is a fixed verse, fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The wor ...
. Some of her poetic contributions were published in ''Il sesto libro delle rime di diversi eccellenti autori'' and in ''Il Tempio alla divina signora donna Giovanna d'Aragona'',
both anthologies collected and edited by
Girolamo Ruscelli and published in Venice in 1553 and 1555, respectively.
See also
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Devorà Ascarelli
Devorà Ascarelli was a 16th-century Italian poet living in Rome, Italy. Ascarelli was likely the first Jewish woman to have a book of her own work published.
Biography
Little is known about Devorà Ascarelli, and some of what is known is contra ...
, first published Jewish female author
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Laura Battiferri
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Isotta Brembati
Isotta Brembati (c. 1530 – February 24, 1586), also known as Isotta Brembati Grumelli, was an Italian poet and countess.
Biography
Born in Bergamo in 1530 to Isotta Ludovico and Lucas Brembati, Brembati was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, ...
*
Maddalena Campiglia
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Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (c. 1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice. She is known for her notable clientele, feminist advocacy, literary contributions, and philanthropy. Her humanist education and cultural contributions inf ...
*
Isabella di Morra
Notes
References
External links
* (Sonnets and sestina by Nicoletta Pasquale from Ruscelli's ''Sesto libro delle rime'', in the Anthologies of Italian Lyric Poetry curated by the
University of Pavia
The University of Pavia (, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; ) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest un ...
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16th-century Italian poets
Italian women poets
Writers from Messina
Poets from Sicily
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16th-century Italian women writers