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QUENTIN (MADEMOISELLE DE ST.), Daughter of a learned Advocate of Paris, at the End of the 17th Century,
Wrote a Treatise on the Possibility of Corporeal Immortality, with an answer to the objections made to it; and treated her subject with much good sense, and profound depth of argument.
QUISTELLI (LUCRETIA), an Italian Lady, of Mirandola, in the 16th Century,
Who learned design and painting of Alex. Allori, and followed the art with much honour and success. She wrote the Lives of some great Painters, which were much esteemed.
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RADHIA, a Moorish Spaniard, of Corduba, the Free-Woman of King Abdelrahman,
A woman well skilled in the art of speaking; inasmuch as she wrote many volumes on Rhetoric. She is said to have lived 107 years, and to have died the 432d year of the Hegira.
