POTAR-DULU (MARIA-THERESA), Daughter of a Royal Secretary at Paris,
Wrote many beautiful pieces of Poetry; but we do not find that they are collected.
POZZO (MODESTA), called FONTE MODERATA, a celebrated Venetian Lady; born 1555.
She is the author of a poem, intituled Il Floridoro, and another on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. She also published a book in prose, De Meriti della Donna, in which she maintains that the female sex are not inferior in understanding and merit to the male. This book upon The Merit of Women was printed immediately after her death, and Father Ribeira has made a eulogium upon her, in his Theatre of Learned Women. This lady is said to have had such a surprising memory, that after hearing a sermon, she could repeat it word for word. She was married to an advocate at Venice, named Philip Zonzi, and died 1592. Nicholas Doglioni has written her life.
PRAXILLA, a Sicyonian Dithyrambic Poetess, of whose writing there is a Work, intituled Metrum Praxilleum.
She is said to have flourished in the 32d olympiad, about 402 B. C. and is reckoned by Antipater Thessalus among the nine most famous lyrics.
