Luisa Bergalli

Luisa Bergalli (also Bergalli Gozzi; 15 April 1703 in Venice – 1779 in Venice), was a Venetian writer and translator. Bergalli and her husband Gasparo Gozzi translated novels, plays and other work. She herself translated Terence and Jean Racine into Italian. Bergalli also wrote poems, compositions, comic and tragic plays as well as a novel, Le avventure del poeta, published in 1730. She was friends with Rosalba Carriera.

Life Luisa Bergalli was born on 15 or 16 April 1703 in Venice. She was friends with Venetian poet Apostolo and Caterino Zeno, Antonio Sforza, and Luigi Quirini, and received encouragement in her writing from Apostolo.

Bergalli was married to Gasparo Gozzi in 1738. He was ten years her junior, and she was aged 35. They had five children together in the first five years of marriage, and then when finances became difficult, needed to write to support the family. Bergalli and her husband translated novels, plays and other work. She herself translated Terence and Jean Racine into Italian.

Bergalli is included in a Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 due to a letter she wrote to pastellist Rosalba Carriera, thanking her for a gift of pastels. Carriera had portrayed Bergalli in 1724.