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Authors

Some notes about authors In the context of this database, "authors" are not only the authors of original works, but also translators or readers who have written about what they've read. The database ..\includes some temporary "names" such as "Anoniem" (anonymous). We hope that in such cases, the actual name of the author will be found during further research. Phrases such as "auteur (nom connu)" refer to male authors whose name can be found in the notes. A few names of men have been included in the database. These fall into two categories: * Relatives or friends of female authors. By including them, we hope to gain insight into the relationship between these networks and that created by writing and reading published works. * Authors of compendiums of female authors.
Found 280 records
Name Year born Year of death Country Language
1 ®  Accarigi, Livia 1719 1786 Italy
Italian
2 ®  Accoramboni-Peretti, Vittoria Virginia 1557 1585 Italy
Italian
3 Aganoor, Elena 1852 1912 Italy
Italian
4 Aganoor-Pompilj, Vittoria 1855 1910 Italy
Italian
5 ®  Aggravi, Rosalinda 1800 1850 Italy
Italian
6 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana 1718 1799 Italy
Italian
7 ®  Ajutamicristo, Elisabetta 1500 1580 Italy
Italian
8 ®  Alamanni, Arcangela 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
9 ®  Albani Avogadro, Lucia 1530 1568 Italy
Italian
10 ®  Albarelli-Vordoni, Teresa 1788 1868 Italy
Italian
11 ®  Alberghetti, Maria 1578 1664 Italy
Italian
12 Alberti-Lutti, Francesca 1840 1900 Italy
Italian
13 Albertoni, Silvia 1870 1910 Italy
Italian
14 Albini-Crosta, Madeleine 1850 1920 Italy
Italian
15 Albini, Sofia 1856 1919 Italy
Italian
16 ®  Albiosi-Maggi, Ginevra 1600 1650 Italy
Italian
17 Albizzi-Tagliamochi, Barbara 1600 1650 Italy
Italian
18 ®  Albrizzi-Marcello, Teresa 1784 1838 Italy
Italian
19 ®  Alciati (degli)-Bellone, Laura 1530 1600 Italy
Italian
20 ®  Aldobrandini, Liona 1522 1590 Italy
Italian
21 ®  Aldrovandi, Lavinia 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
22 ®  Alessandrini, Abigaille 1810 1860 Italy
Italian
23 ®  Alessi, Maria Felice 1700 1750 Italy
Italian
24 Alimperti, Sotiria / Ἀλιμπέρτη, Σωτηρία 1847 1922 Italy
Greek
Italian
25 ®  Ali, Olimpia 1675 1725 Italy
Italian
26 ®  Aliprandi-Nuvolona, Ortensia 1550 1660 Italy
Italian
27 ®  Almerici (degli), Paolina 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
28 ®  Amato (d'), Antonia Felice 1669 1701 Italy
Italian
29 ®  Amici (de), Flamminia 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
30 Amoretti, Maria Pellegrina 1756 1787 Italy
Italian
31 ®  Anderton, Isabella Mary 1858 1904 Italy
English
Italian
32 ®  Andreasi, Osanna 1449 1501 Italy
Italian
33 Andreini Canali, Isabelle 1562 1604 Italy
Italian
34 ®  Angelini, Maria Vittoria 1590 1659 Italy
Italian
35 ®  Angelini, Teresa 1800 1850 Italy
Italian
36 ®  Anguisciola-Lomellino, Sofonisba 1532 1625 Italy
Italian
37 ~~anonymous Italian Italy
Italian
38 Antolini, Cornelia 1866 1952 Italy
Italian
39 Anzoletti, Luisa 1863 1925 Italy
Italian
40 ®  Aragona (D'), Giulia 1492 1542 Italy
Italian
41 Aragona (D') Sforza, Isabella 1470 1524 Italy
Italian
42 ®  Arborea (D') Doria, Eleonora 1340 1404 Italy
Italian
43 ®  Arco (d'), Diana 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
44 ®  Ardinghelli Crispo, Maria Angela 1728 1825 Italy
Italian
45 ®  Ardoini Lodovisi, Anna Maria 1672 1700 Italy
Italian
Latin
46 ®  Armani, Vincenza 1520 1570 Italy
Italian
47 ®  Arringhieri Cerretani (De), Ermellina 1520 1570 Italy
Italian
48 ®  Ascarelli, Debora 1520 1600 Italy
Italian
Hebrew
49 ®  Ascarelli, Giovanna 1620 1670 Italy
Italian
50 ®  Avalo (d') Amalfi (d'), Costanza 1501 1575 Italy
Italian
51 ®  Avogadro, Lodovica 1650 1700 Italy
Italian
52 Azzi (degli) Forti, Faustina 1650 1726 Italy
Italian
53 Bacaloglu, Elena 1878 1947 Italy
French
Romanian
54 ®  Bacci, Alessandra 1520 1570 Italy
Italian
55 Baccini, Ida 1850 1911 Italy
Italian
56 ®  Baciocchi-Camerata, Napoleone 1806 1869 Italy
Italian
57 ®  Baffo, Francesca 1500 1580 Italy
Italian
58 ®  Baitelli, Angelica 1588 1650 Italy
Italian
59 ®  Baitelli, Giulia 1706 1768 Italy
Italian
French
60 ®  Balbi-Valier-Fava, Maria 1816 1884 Italy
Italian
61 ®  Baldini, Angelica 1720 1770 Italy
Italian
62 Baletti Riccoboni, Hélène 1686 1771 Italy
Spanish
Italian
French
63 ®  Baletti-Vaccari, Teresa 1700 1767 Italy
Italian
64 ®  Ballatti-Orlandini, Emilia 1683 1757 Italy
Italian
65 Bandettini Landucci, Teresa 1763 1837 Italy
Italian
66 ®  Barbapiccola, Giuseppa Eleonora 1702 1740 Italy
Italian
French
67 ®  Barbaro-Gritti, Cornelia 1719 1808 Italy
Italian
68 ®  Barbò Da Soncin-Carburi, Cecilia 1770 1820 Italy
French
Italian
69 ®  Bardi (De), Dea 1520 1570 Italy
Italian
70 ®  Baroni, Caterina 1612 1670 Italy
Italian
71 ®  Baroni, Eleonora 1611 1670 Italy
Italian
72 Barrett, Elizabeth 1806 1861 Italy
English
73 ®  Barrili, Anton Giulio 1836 1908 Italy
Italian
74 ®  Bartolamei, Costanza 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
75 ®  Bartoli, Minerva 1562 1602 Italy
Italian
76 ®  Basadonna-Manin, Maria 1710 1760 Italy
Italian
French
77 ®  Bassi, Flamminia Rosana 1620 1670 Italy
Italian
78 Bassi-Verati, Laura 1711 1778 Italy
French
Italian
Latin
79 ®  Battiferra-Ammanati (degli), Laura 1523 1589 Italy
Italian
80 ®  Battisti (de) Scolari, Edvige 1800 1870 Italy
German
Italian
81 ®  Bazani-Cavazzoni, Virginia 1669 1720 Italy
Italian
82 Bazzocchi, Erminia 1848 1914 Italy
Italian
83 ®  Bebbi-Sassatelli, Lucrezia 1680 1730 Italy
Italian
Hebrew
Latin
84 ®  Beccaria, Livia 1552 1611 Italy
Italian
85 Beccari, Gualberta Alaide 1842 1906 Italy
Italian
86 Belgioioso, Cristina Trivulzio di &&& 1808 1871 Italy
French
Italian
87 ®  Bembo, Illuminata 1410 1483 Italy
Italian
88 Benaglio, Ines 1849 1897 Italy
Italian
89 ®  Bendinelli, Silvia 1550 1600 Italy
Italian
90 ®  Benegni-Manfredi, Ippolita 1575 1612 Italy
Italian
91 ®  Benincasa, Orsola 1547 1618 Italy
Italian
92 ®  Bentivoglio-Calcagnini, Matilde 1671 1711 Italy
Italian
93 Berenice Berenice 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
94 Bergalli-Gozzi, Luisa 1703 1779 Italy
Italian
95 ®  Bernardi-Bellati, Eleonora 1559 1610 Italy
Italian
96 Bernardini, Adelaide 1872 1946 Italy
Italian
97 Bernardy, Amy Allemand 1880 1959 Italy
English
Italian
98 ®  Blondel, Luisa 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
99 Bonacci Brunamonti, Maria Alinda 1841 1903 Italy
Italian
100 ®  Bonarelli della Rovere, Guidobaldo 1563 1608 Italy
Italian
101 Bonelli Franciosi, Eugenia 1870 1910 Italy
Italian
102 Botti Binda, Rachele 1858 1933 Italy
Italian
103 Bruni Cheli, Rosa Agnese 1650 1720 Italy
Italian
104 Butti, Adele 1850 1920 Italy
Italian
105 Cabrini, Maria 1870 1910 Italy
Italian
106 Caetani, Ersilia 1840 1925 Italy
Italian
107 Caminer Turra, Elisabetta 1751 1796 Italy
Italian
108 Campiglia, Maddalena 1553 1595 Italy
Italian
109 Cantoni, Alberta 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
110 ®  Capisati, Princesse 1700 1750 Italy
Italian
111 Caracciolo, Enrichetta 1821 1901 Italy
Italian
112 Carboné, Adela 1890 1960 Italy
Italian
Spanish
113 ®  Carriera, Rosalba 1675 1757 Italy
Italian
114 ®  Castelnuovo, Enrico 1839 1915 Italy
Italian
115 Caterina da Siena, Santa 1347 1380 Italy
Italian
116 Cattermole, Evelina 1849 1896 Italy
Italian
117 ®  Cicero 0 0 Italy
Latin
118 Clare of Assisi, St. 1194 1253 Italy
Latin
119 Codemo, Luigia 1828 1898 Italy
Italian
120 Codronchi Argeli, Eugenia 1865 1934 Italy
Italian
121 Colban, Adolphine Marie 1814 1884 Italy
Norwegian
Danish
122 Colonna, Vittoria 1490 1547 Italy
Italian
123 ®  Contarini, Elisabetta 1752 1807 Italy
Italian
124 ®  Contarini, Francesco 1556 1624 Italy
Italian
125 ®  Copia Sulam, Sara 1588 1641 Italy
Italian
126 ®  Cordero di Montezemolo, Cesarina 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
127 *Córdula 1830 1900 Italy
Italian
128 Cornaro Piscopia, Eleonora Lucrezia 1646 1684 Italy
Italian
Latin
129 Costa, Margherita 1590 1650 Italy
Italian
130 Costanza da Varano 1426 1447 Italy
Latin
131 Cozzi, Orsola 1780 1820 Italy
Italian
132 Curtoni Verza, Silvia 1751 1835 Italy
Italian
133 D'Aragona, Tullia 1508 1556 Italy
Italian
134 Deledda, Grazia 1871 1936 Italy
Italian
135 Della Rocca di Castiglione, Irene 1829 1912 Italy
Italian
136 De Luna Folliero, Cecilia 1800 1870 Italy
Italian
French
137 Deni, Cecilia 1872 1934 Italy
Italian
138 ®  Denti, Giovanna 1860 1930 Italy
Italian
139 De Ricci, Caterina 1522 1590 Italy
Italian
140 Des Ursins, Anne-Marie de La Trémoille, princesse 1642 1723 Italy
French
141 Dosi Grati, Maria Isabella 1670 1735 Italy
Italian
142 Emma 1840 1900 Italy
Italian
143 ®  Ettlinger - Fano, Maria 1870 1950 Italy
Italian
144 Euple-Gadola, Luisa 1870 1910 Italy
Italian
145 Faccio, Rina 1876 1960 Italy
Italian
146 Fachini, Ginevra Canonici 1779 1859 Italy
Italian
147 ®  Farina, Salvatore 1846 1918 Italy
Italian
148 Fava, Onorato 1859 1937 Italy
Italian
149 Fedele Mapelli, Cassandra 1465 1558 Italy
Italian
Latin
150 Felice Lancellotti, Vincenzina de 1856 1898 Italy
Italian
151 ®  Ferretti, Emilia 1844 1929 Italy
Italian
152 ®  Fieschi Adorni, Caterina 1447 1510 Italy
Italian
153 Finzi, Ida 1867 1946 Italy
Italian
154 ®  Florenzi, Marianna 1802 1870 Italy
Italian
155 Foligno, Saint Angela de 1248 1309 Italy
Italian
156 Folliero De Luna, Aurelia 1827 1895 Italy
Italian
157 Fonseca Pimentel, Eleonora 1752 1799 Italy
Italian
158 Fonte, Moderata 1555 1592 Italy
Italian
159 Foudoukli, Florendia 1869 1915 Italy
German
French
Greek
160 ®  Franceschi Ferrucci, Caterina 1803 1887 Italy
Italian
161 Franco, Veronica 1546 1591 Italy
Italian
162 Freschi-Borgese, Maria 1881 1847 Italy
Italian
163 Gagliardi, Maria 1850 1930 Italy
German
164 Galgani, Gemma 1878 1903 Italy
Italian
165 Gallerana, Cecilia 1473 1536 Italy
Italian
166 Gamba-Ghiselli-Guiccioli, Teresa 1800 1873 Italy
French
Italian
167 ®  Gambara Correggio (da), Veronica 1485 1550 Italy
Italian
Latin
168 Gambara, Veronica 1485 1550 Italy
Italian
169 Ghica, Elena 1828 1888 Italy
French
170 ®  Giacometti, Paolo 1816 1882 Italy
Italian
171 Giaconi, Luisa 1870 1908 Italy
Italian
172 Gianelli, Elda 1856 1921 Italy
Italian
173 Giarrè-Billi, Marianna 1840 1900 Italy
Italian
174 Gonzaga, Isabella d'Este 1474 1539 Italy
Italian
175 Grassi, Ángela 1826 1883 Italy
Spanish
176 Gray, Teresa Corinna Ubertis 1877 1964 Italy
Italian
177 Grillo Borromeo Arese, Clelia 1684 1777 Italy
Italian
178 ®  Grogne, Signora Presidente de 1750 1800 Italy
Italian
179 ®  Gubernatis, Sofia Pavlovna de 1800 1900 Italy
Italian
Russian
180 Guglielminetti, Amalia 1881 1941 Italy
Italian
181 Guidicini, Cristina Tommasa Maria 1835 1903 Italy
Italian
182 Isotta degli Atti 1432 1474 Italy
Italian
183 Karttunen, Liisi (Elisabeth) 1880 1957 Italy
Finnish
French
184 King, Margaret 1773 1835 Italy
English
185 La Ramée, Maria Louise de 1839 1908 Italy
English
186 ®  Lattanzi, Carolina 1750 1818 Italy
Italian
187 ®  Laura di Noves 1314 1348 Italy
Italian
188 Lazea, Philippa 1546 1576 Italy
Latin
189 Levi, Eugenia 1860 1920 Italy
Italian
190 ®  L. Ferri-Giustino 1850 1900 Italy
Italian
191 Lindau, Anna 1828 1880 Italy
German
192 Lombroso, Gina 1872 1944 Italy
Italian
193 Lombroso, Paola 1871 1954 Italy
Italian
194 Macina Gervasio, Luisa 1865 1936 Italy
Italian
195 Maggioni, Rita 1870 1910 Italy
Italian
196 Majocchi Plattis, Mary/Maria 1864 1917 Italy
Italian
197 Malatesta, Battista 1383 1450 Italy
Italian
198 ®  Malliani di Travers, Maria 1830 1900 Italy
Italian
199 Manna Crippa, Erminia (Comtess de) 1860 1920 Italy
Italian
200 Mantegazza, María 1860 1930 Italy
Italian