A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Varano di Costanza

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VARANO DI COSTANZA,

Born at Camerino, 1428. She had a learned and literary education. Her family having lost the signoiy of Camerino, she made a Latin harangue to Bianca Visconti, in order to obtain its restitution. Having failed in her eloquence, she wrote to the principal sovereigns of Italy to procure assistance, and this time her efforts resulted successfully. At the restoration of her father <he addressed a large assembly in a Latin oration. This erudite lady became the wife of Alexander Sforza, sovereign of Pesaro. She died in 1447, at the age of nineteen, leaving a son, Costanzo. She has left several orations and some epistles.