Elena Barozzi

Elena Barozzi (1514 – 1580)[1] was a celebrated Venetian patrician.

Life

Elena's reputation for her elegance is praised by the poets and painters of her century. Titian and Giorgio Vasari portrayed it.[2] The poet Lelio Capilupi dedicated the ballad to her Ne l'amar e fredd'onde si bagna.[3] The poet Fortunio Spira compared her to the beauties of classical antiquity,[4] while the writer Lodovico Domenichi described her as Greek for beauty and Roman for personality, like Lucretia.[5]

For her fine intellectuality Barozzi was admired and courted by the finest men of her time. She had a relationship and an illegitimate daughter with Lorenzino de' Medici, named Lorenzina (1547–1590), who married Giulio Colonna, but had no children.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Villegas 2020.
  2. ^ Capodimonte 2006, p. 1952.
  3. ^ Schiltz 2003, p. 64.
  4. ^ International Musicological Society Congress 1993, p. 2516.
  5. ^ Molmenti 1885, p. 291.
  6. ^ Pieraccini 1924, p. 433.

References

  • Villegas, Esther (2020-03-03). El canto de la décima Musa. Poesías del Renacimiento y el Barroco: Edición, introducción y traducción a cargo de Esther Villegas (in Spanish). Austral. ISBN 978-84-08-22615-4.
  • Capodimonte, Museo e gallerie nazionali di (2006). Tiziano e il ritratto di corte da Raffaello ai Carracci (in Italian). Electa Napoli. ISBN 978-88-510-0336-4.
  • Schiltz, Katelijne (2003). Vulgari orecchie, purgate orecchie: de relatie tussen publiek en muziek in het Venetiaanse motetoeuvre van Adriaan Willaert (in Dutch). Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-90-5867-328-2.
  • International Musicological Society Congress (1993). Kongressbericht. Bärenreiter.
  • Bärenreiter, Venezia Nella Vita (1880). La Storia (in Italian).
  • Molmenti, Pompeo (1885). La storia di Venezia nella vita privata dalle origini alla caduta della repubblica (in Italian). Roux e Favale.
  • Pieraccini, Gaetano (1924). La stirpe de'Medici di Cafaggiolo: saggio di ricerche sulla trasmissione ereditaria dei caratteri biologici (in Italian). Vallechi.


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