Maddalena Aceiaiuoli

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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

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Coat of arms of the Acciaioli 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

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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

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  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), "Sonnet 'Diptychs' and Double Portraits: Figurative Allusions in Sixteenth-Century Encomiastic Poetry", in Pich, Federica; Bernocchi, Ilaria; Morelli, Nicolò (eds.), 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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