A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Amalfi, (Donna Constantia d'Avalos, Duchess d')

by Mary Matilda Betham

AMALFI, (DONNA CONSTANTIA D'AVALOS, DUCHESS D',) a Neapolitan Poetess of the Sixteenth Century,

Was of the same noble family with the husband of Victoria Colonna, Marchioness de Pescara, with whose poems her's are usually bound. She was celebrated by all the learned men of the age; and, though few of her works remain, those confessedly place her in a high rank among the Italian lyrists. Her muse was grave, but ingenious; and her piety is every where conspicuous in her works, as it is said to have been also in an exemplary life.

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