About Cosmana Navarra
Lived 1599 – 1687 (aged 87–88). Cosmana Navarra was a patron of the arts.
Cosmana Navarra ( 1600 – 30 January 1687) was a Maltese noblewoman and art patron.
Cosmana Navarra was born around the year 1600, the daughter of Giovanni Cumbo and Cornelia Navarra. Her mother came from a noble family, so this may be the reason her daughter was often referred to by this surname. After her mother's death, her father married Giovanna D’Anastasio. Their daughter Timotea became Suor Geltruda Cumbo (1613-1656), popularly regarded as a saint. In 1615, Cosmana Navarra married Melchior Vella Cagliares, a lawyer and nephew of Bishop Baldassare Cagliares. They had one child, Jesuit author Ignazio Vella Cagliares (1618-1640), before he died in 1624. The next year she married Lorenzo Cassar, who died in 1660. She spent the rest of her life as a widow.
Cosmana Navarra died in 1688 at the age of 87.
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Who was Cosmana Navarra?
Maltese art patron
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Cosmana Navarra was born in 1599.
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Cosmana Navarra died on 30 January 1687.
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Cosmana Navarra was a patron of the arts.
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