Maddalena Aceiaiuoli

Maddalena Aceiaiuoli
Born(1557-03-25)25 March 1557
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died4 March 1610(1610-03-04) (aged 52)
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
OccupationNoblewoman and poet
Notable worksRime Toscane (1590)
Il David perseguitato o vero fuggitivo (1611)
SpouseGeneral Zanobi Acciaiuoli (m. 1582)
Children1

Maddalena Salvetti Aceiaiuoli (25 March 1557 – 4 March 1610) was a 16th-century noblewoman and poet from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Family

Aceiaiuoli was born to Lucrezia and Salvetto Niccolini on 25 March 1557 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. She became a member of the noble Acciaioli family by her 1582 marriage to General Zanobi Aceiaiuoli, an official of the Grand Duchy and Knight of St. Stephen.[1] They had one son, Mario Aceiaiuoli, who was born on 25 August 1583.[1]

Writing

In 1590, Aceiaiuoli published Rime Toscane (Tuscan Rhymes) in honour of the marriage between Ferdinando I de' Medici and Christina of Lorraine.[1][2][3][4] She used sixteen different rhyme schemes.[5]

Aceiaiuoli also wrote the heroic poem Il David perseguitato o vero fuggitivo (David persecuted) on the theme of the biblical King David, which was dedicated to the Tuscan princess Maria Maddalena de’ Medici.[2] The unfinished epic was published posthumously in 1611, after she had died in 1610.[2][6]

Cornelio Lanci dedicated his comedy La Niccolosa (1591) to Aceiaiuoli.[1] A biography of the nun Birgitta of Sweden was translated into Italian vernacular for Aceiaiuoli by Lodovico Domenichi as a gift. The translation was not printed or circulated.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Marongiu, Paola (2017). "SALVETTI, Maddalena". Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Fifty Women: Maddalena Salvetti Acciaiuoli". Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  3. ^ Terzoli, Antonietta M. (2017). "Strategie di offerta e convenzioni dedicatorie nella tradizione italiana". Humanistica (in Italian). 12. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  4. ^ Barbero, Muriel M. S. (2023), Pich, Federica; Bernocchi, Ilaria; Morelli, Nicolò (eds.), "Sonnet 'Diptychs' and Double Portraits: Figurative Allusions in Sixteenth-Century Encomiastic Poetry", Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture, Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 181–212, ISBN 978-90-485-5291-7, retrieved 19 September 2025
  5. ^ Costa-Zalessow, Natalia (Spring 2015). "Book Review: Virginia Cox. Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance". Italica. 92 (1). American Association of Teachers of Italian. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  6. ^ Betham, Mary Matilda (1804). A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: Betham and Ward. p. 2.
  7. ^ Carcini, Eleonora (18 December 2023). "Discourses on the Virgin Mary: Brigitta of Sweden and Chiara Matraini". In Wainwright, Anna; Falkeid, Unn (eds.). The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy. BRILL. p. 212. ISBN 978-90-04-54004-0.
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