Maddalena Scrovegni

Maddalena Scrovegni (1356 ca.-1429) was an Italian humanist.

Maddalena Scrovegni
Born	c. 1356 Padua, Italy
Died	1429 (aged 72–73) Venice, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Humanist
Years active	1380s-1429[1]

Biography

Maddalena Scrovegni was from a very wealthy family from Padua, Italy; she was the only daughter in the family. Her father was Ugolino da Scrovegni. She married Francesco Manfredi, a knight, in 1376. Manfredi died by 1381.^[2]

In 1383, Scrovegni wrote a letter to the Carraresi family to exonerate her family after they were exiled in Padua. The family was welcomed back into Paduan society under the Carraresi patron, Francesco il Vecchio.^[2] She was the subject of Antoni Loschi's poem The Temple of Chastity, written in 1389. In the poem, Loschi depicts Scrovegni as Chastity and that her study or home was a temple.^[3] The poem was commissioned by the House of Visconti in response to Scrovegni's letter.^[2]

Scrovegni, her father, and her brothers were exiled to Venice in 1390. In Venice, she founded a hospice. She died in Venice in 1429.^[1]

Scrovegni communicated with Angela Nogarola.^[2]

References

1. "SCROVEGNI, Maddalena degli". Treccani. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
2. Jane Stevenson (2005). Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-0-19-818502-4.
3. Jean Spence; Sarah Aiston; Maureen M. Meikle (10 September 2009). Women, Education, and Agency, 1600–2000. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-135-85584-0.

Further reading

• Jacobus, Laura (2018) Maddalena Scrovegni (1356 ca-1429). In: Murano, G. (ed.) Autographa II: Donne, Sante e Madonna (da Matilde da Canossa ad Artemesia Gentileschi). Imola, Italy: Editrice La Mandragora. ISBN 9788875865580.