A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Scacerni-Prosperi, Angela
SCACERNI-PROSPERI, ANGELA,
Of Ferrara, is descended from a family In which learning and learned men abounded. Carefully educated at home by her father, she was, in her early youth, well versed in general history, geography, geometry, and the French and Latin languages, and also displayed a turn for the fine arts. Her parents removed from Ferrara and resided for some time in Tuscany, where Angela had still greater opportunities for mental improvement, of which she took advantage. She was received into the Academy Clementina of Fine Arts in Bologna, and having returned with her father to her native country, was enrolled among the members of the Academy Ariostea. Then, having become the wife of the Count Michel Fausto Prosperi, and the mother of several children, she devoted herself entirely to her domestic duties. She is universally beloved by all who know her, and her country willingly grants to her that veneration and respect which belong to her merits. She is an easy, harmonious, and graceful writer. Her works consist of many lyric poems, songs, epigrams, and sonnets, written with great sweetness and learning, and a touching elegy on Guido Villa, formerly President of the Hospital of St James and Anna in Ferrara.