A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Coppoli, Elena or Cecilia

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COPPOLI, ELENA or CECILIA,

Of Perugia, born 1425, died 1500. This learned woman was the daughter of Francesco Coppoli. In the twenty- seventh year of her age she entered the religious house of Santa Lucia, and became a member of the sisterhood. She was an intimate friend of the famous Porcellio, who addressed many Latin poems to her. She was not only mistress of the Greek and Latin, but well acquainted with elegant literature. She has left some Latin poems, "Ascetic Letters," a manuscript life of a certain sister Eustachia of Messina, and a "History of the Monastery of St Lucia."