Alessandra Scala (1475–1506) was a Florentine humanist and scholar of Latin and Greek in the late fifteenth century.
[1] Scala was taught in part by her father and Angelo Poliziano, and also studied Ancient Greek under Janus Lascaris and Demetrios Chalkokondyles.
[3] She also corresponded with Fedele in Latin about marriage and scholarship between 1492 and 1493,[4][5] and replied to love poems written in Greek that Poliziano sent her around 1493.
[6][7] Poliziano's praise of Scala's dramatic performance and his poetry addressed to her have been interpreted differently by scholars.
[8] Six years later Marullus died, and Scala then entered the Florentine convent of San Pier Maggiore[1] – Strocchia notes that it was the oldest and richest convent in the city, whose nuns were traditionally drawn from what Miller terms "the ruling class" of Florence.