About Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini
Lived 1460 – 1541 (aged 80–81). Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini was a poet and writer.
Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini (1504–1575) was a duchess of Amalfi. A lady of great worth, she cultivated Italian poetry with great success. Charles V gave her the title of princess, as a mark of his esteem. Her poems have been published several times with those of Victoria Colonna, her cousin; there are several of her pieces also in the collection by Ludovico Domenichi (Lucca, 1559, 8vo; and Naples, 1595).
In later years she moved to the convent of Santa Chiara a Napoli, where she died.
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Duchess of Amalfi, poet
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Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini was born in 1460 in Naples.
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Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini died in 1541 in Naples.
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Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini was a poet and writer.
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