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    378 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICED

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    Women Of The House Of Montefeltro.

    first happy , " she of -enj her oyed marriage her happ she iness gave for birth a short to a daug time hter only , whom . In she _thd year

    gratefull of able her to protect son y named Costanzo the B children attista , breathed ; that and her in she 1447 last left . , ei Her and ght in husb days the and after same was the year amp birth the ly

    broken-hearted Battista entered the convent , of Santa Lucia at tanza Foligno 's . genius A few : they Latin are orations published and in epistles the collections remain to of prove the Abb Cos e - *

    Lazzarini . at In Foli less gno than , on a the year 3 rd from the of the Jul time y , 1448 she of , Sismondi entered Battista the Montefeltro and Clarist do not convent know died .

    We give this date upon authority , where he obtained It . It has been stated that nothing remains to _justify Battista ' s

    reputation at Florence . Beside in 1485 the contains song before articles alluded by her to , , a _ecnd collection her " Harangue , published "

    before the Emperor , Sigismund , was published by Mitarelli at Venicein 1779 . In 1787 , Abbati Olivier ! published " Notizie de

    Battista , de Montefeltro . " * All who are familiar with the history of the period , know how time

    difficult it is to reconcile the conflicting statements of the . mondi may Only be a we disprop partl find y ortionate understood ing amount and from contradictory the of fact stud , y that can accounts in do a it writer . Its of like the difficulty sale

    Sisof Pesaro . So far vary as Battista is concerned the confusion has been father increased Galeotto , by confounding Malatesta ; while her husband the story Galeazzo of her earl with y death his , grand which

    is of generall Costanza y believed not born , till is manifestl eighteen y years inconsistent after . with her adoption

    Costanza _, left two children , Battista and Costanzo : the latter inherited the position of his fatherand we are told that his

    magnifi-, cence and generosity imparted a temporary lustre to the little court he collected about Mm at Pesaro . Battista espoused Federigo Due

    d' Urbinoher third cousin , in the fourteenth year of her age . At this time , she visited the court of Francesco Sforza , and recited a

    Latin oration , as Tiraboschi quaintly says , " to the wonder of all . " She addressed the distinguished strangers who visited her in

    extempore with such Latin eloquence , and as , that Duchess , thoug of h Urbino a gifted harangued and very learned Pope Pius man II ,

    he declared he had not power to reply . At that time she impressed mother the literary or grandmother circle about . her Her as a husband person of Federi even go rarer , the g first ifts than _Diike her of

    Urbino , was as remarkable as herself . He was a firm friend of her father and uncleand by his early progressplaced himself in the

    ranks of the best , instructed and witty , as well , as the most magnificent ,

    racteristic princes capital , of and of the collected him fifteenth , that the on century finest the sacking library . He stimulated in of Ital Sansovino y . ar It tists is , he rel to chose ate adorn d as as cha his his - _.

    378 Biographical Noticed

    378 BIOGRAPHICAL _NOTICED

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/18/