Biography of gaspara stampa

Italian poet

Gaspara Stampa (Italian pronunciation:[ˈɡasparaˈstampa]; 1523 – 23 April 1554) was an Italian poet. She is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age.^[1]

Biography

Gaspara's father, Bartolomeo, belonged to a cadet branch of the Stampa family.

He was a jewel and gold merchant in Padua, where she was born, along with her siblings Cassandra and Baldassarre. When Gaspara was eight, her father died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with her children, whom she educated in literature, music, history, and painting.

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Gaspara and Cassandra excelled at singing and playing the lute, possibly due to training by Tuttovale Menon.

Early on, the Stampa household became a literary club, visited by many well-known Venetian writers, painters and musicians.

There is evidence that Gaspara herself was a musician who perform