A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Muratori, Teresa

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MURATORI, TERESA,

Was born at Bologna, in 1662. She early evinced a taste for the fine arts, particularly music and drawing. She was the daughter of a physician, and successively the scholar of Eniilio Taruffl, Lorenzo Pasinelli, and Giovanni Gniseppe dal Sole. She composed many works for the chnrches of Bologna, the most admirable of which are, "A Dead Child restored to Life," "The Disbelief of St Thomas," and "The Annunciation." She died in 1708.