A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Marinelli, Lucrezia

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MARINELLI, LUCREZIA,

Of Venice, was born in 1571. Her talents were surprisingly versatile. She was learned in church history, understood and practised the art of sculpture, was skilled in music, and besides left many literary productions, lives of several saints, a treatise entitled "The Excellence of Women and the Defects of Men;" an epic poem; several epistles to the Duchess d'Este; and many other pieces of poetry, both sacred and profane. She died in 1653.