A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Scala, Alexandra

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SCALA, ALEXANDRA,

Was daughter of Bartholemi Seals, an Italian, eminent as a statesman and man of letters in the fifteenth century, and was a very accomplished woman. She became the wife of the celebrated Marullus, whose avowed reason for marrying her was to become perfect in the Latin tongue. Nevertheless, she was not only a learned, but an excellent and a beautiful woman. She was often praised by Politian in Greek. She died in 1506. Marullus wrote several poems in her praise.