In 1617 she moved with her family to live near San Nicolò dei Tolentini, borough of Santa Croce, at the other edge of Venice, where her father run a manufacture of sublimates.
However, painter Alessandro Varotari appears among the best men at her sister Lorenzina's wedding with Giacomo Pighetti, on 21 February 1640, when Caterina was then aged 25.
Caterina left on 23 November 1650 and spent a period in Sant'Anna in Castello nunnery, where her sister, the proto-feminist well established writer suor Arcangela, died on 22 February 1652, possibly nursing her.
In her posthumous book, Simplicity Deceived, published in Leiden, by Elzevier in 1654, two years after her death, Arcangela Tarabotti possibly writes about her sister Caterina - without overtly naming her -, when stating: "Let the proof be a young woman closely related to me, gifted with abundant wit and talents.
In no time she reached the point of competing with Apollo in music and poetry, with Apelles in painting, with Minerva in learning, and with Nature herself in sculpting small animals so realistically that, but the fact they do not move or fly away, you would think they were alive".
If not CAterina, it could have been the editor of "Simplicity Deceived", the French ex Huguenot, astronomer and acquaintance Ismael Boulliau, to add such a clause, perhaps out of gratitude, in case she had funded her late sister's publication.
In 1660 Marco Boschini listed Caterina Tarabotti among the great Venetian painters of his days, opposite to Lanzi (Dizionario biografico delle donne illustri, Milan, Bettoni, 1822, vol.
Réseaux hérités, supposés et déguisés d'une nonne vénitienne au XVIIe siècle', "Genre & Histoire", automne 2012, https://doi.org/10.4000/genrehistoire.1750.