1. Tullia d'Aragona was an Italian poet, author, and philosopher.
20 Facts About Tullia d'Aragona
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Tullia d'Aragona was born in Rome sometime between 1501 and 1505, to Giulia Campana, daughter of the otherwise unknown Orsino Pendaglia from Ferrara.
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Some have speculated that Giulia's marriage to Costanzo Palmieri Tullia d'Aragona was a cover-up orchestrated by Cardinal Luigi Tullia d'Aragona's family to hide his liaison.
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Young Tullia d'Aragona proved to be a child prodigy who amazed even her mother's 'guests.
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Tullia d'Aragona was often seen in the company of poets, such as Sperone Speroni.
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Scholars debate whether Penelope d'Aragona was Tullia's daughter, or her sister, as the family claimed.
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Tullia d'Aragona is said be there in the spring of 1532 by Filippo Strozzi in a letter.
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Tullia d'Aragona appears, together with Bernardo Tasso in Sperone Speroni's Dialogo d'amore, which takes place in Venice.
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Nonetheless, she was back in Rome, which was recorded in a letter Tullia d'Aragona wrote to Francesco de' Pazzi, a friend and companion of Piero Strozzi, Filippo's eldest son.
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In 1537, Battista Stambellino's correspondence to Isabella D'Este suggests Tullia d'Aragona was living in Ferrara.
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Tullia d'Aragona apparently came to Ferrara to see Filippo Strozzi, and while there, heard the preaching's of the reformist Bernardo Ochino, who she later referenced a sonnet on the importance of free will.
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Ferrara was a capital for arts and culture, and Tullia d'Aragona made full use of her skills for singing and sharp-tongued entertainment.
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Tullia d'Aragona later moved to Siena sometime between 1543 and 1545.
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The only evidence of their relationship is a malicious comment that was made by Agnolo Firenzuola who claimed that Tullia d'Aragona let her husband die of hunger.
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Tullia d'Aragona did have a confirmend son Celio, who is mentioned in her will, but it is unconfirmed whether or not Guiccardi was the father.
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In late 1545 or early 1546 due to political uprisings, d'Aragona fled Siena to seek refuge in Florence in the court of Cosimo I By the end of 1546 she was living in a villa just outside of Florence near the Mensola River.
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In 1547 Tullia d'Aragona was charged with disobeying sumptuary legislation.
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Tullia d'Aragona Appears in Rome in 1549, living near Monsignor Annibale Caro near Palazzo Carpi.
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Tullia d'Aragona's last known work, Il Meschino, is an epic poem, which related the experiences of a captive youth, Giarrino, who was enslaved and journeyed across Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as Purgatory and Hell, trying to find his lost parents.
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Tullia d'Aragona's work has been discussed in the University of Chicago's "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" series, which deals with texts from Renaissance era female authors, as well as male advocates of women's emancipation from that era.