Cvijeta Zuzorić

Cvijeta Zuzorić (pronounced [tsʋijěta zûzoritɕ]; also Fiora Zuzori or Flora Zuzzeri) (1552–1648) was a lyric poet from the Republic of Ragusa.

[1] She was born in Ragusa, (now called Dubrovnik) into a prominent merchant family, she was the daughter of Frano Zuzori(Zuzorić) and Marina Radagli.

Zuzorić was an exceptionally beautiful and intelligent woman, was said to have written excellent epigrams and gentle rhymes, most of which, however, have not survived.

She was mentioned in the sonnets of the famous Italian poet Torquato Tasso, who praised her virtues and beauty even though he had never met her.

Her great friend Nikola Vitov Gučetić and his wife Marija Gundulić Gucić described her physical and spiritual beauty in his famous philosophical work on love, a treatise on the Meteors of Aristotle.