A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Maleguzzi, (Veronica)
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MALEGUZZI (VERONICA), Daughter of the Count Gabriel Maleguzzi-Valery, of Reggio, in Lombardy, in the 17th Century,
Was deeply versed in all speculative sciences and liberal arts. She sustained twice public theses, and was patronized by the first people. She had also some talent for poetry, as she wrote a prologue, in verse, to L'Innocence Reconnue, a work in prose, which she published 1660. She became afterwards a nun at Modena, where she led an exemplary life.
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