A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Landi, (Leonora)
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LANDI (LEONORA), of a noble Castilian Family, was born at Goa, but carried early to Florence, where her Father was Major Domo to Cosmo.
She was married to Horace Landi, a noble Florentine; but being exceedingly devout, obtained his permission to retire from the world, which she did after some time, founding the orders of the Incarnation and the Trinity. She had weak health, and spent her time mostly in prayer and penitence, dying 1639.
Though she only knew how to read and write, she had a talent for poetry, and composed in stanzas of eight lines many Lives of saints, in three-lined verse; a large volume of Spiritual songs, &c. After her death, they were collected and transcribed. Crescimbeni, in his Histoire de Poësie Vulgaire, says, that they abound in theological and moral thoughts, and charitable sentiments.
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