Diamante Medaglia Faini

Diamante Medaglia Faini
Diamante Medaglia Faini
	Diamante Medaglia Faini
Born	28 August 1724
Died	13 June 1770 (aged 45)
Occupation	Italian composer and poet

Diamante Medaglia Faini (28 August 1724 – 13 June 1770) was an Italian poet and composer. She was a member of the academies Accademia degli Agiati (1751), Accademia degli Orditi in Padova, under the name Nisea Corcirense, and Accademia dell'Arcadia in Rome (1757). She was known for her love poems, and also composed sonnets and madrigals.[1]

She was the daughter of the doctor Antonio Medaglia, and married the doctor Pietro Antonio Faini in 1748. Her father arranged the marriage because he disliked her fame, and the marriage forced her to stop using love as a theme of her poems. She was a controversial poet, and stopped her activity in the academies when they tried to force her to adjust herself to accepted convention. She died during her studies in philosophy, history, French and science.

References

Findlen, Paula (1 March 2003). "Becoming a Scientist: Gender and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy". Science in Context. 16 (1–2): 59–87. doi:10.1017/S026988970300070X. ISSN 1474-0664.

Sources

"Medaglia Faini Diamante — Scienza a due voci". scienzaa2voci.unibo.it. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

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[1] Findlen, Paula (1 March 2003). "Becoming a Scientist: Gender and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy". Science in Context. 16 (1–2): 59–87. doi:10.1017/S026988970300070X. ISSN 1474-0664.