From an early age, she received a good education, which included music, fine arts, and, above all, poetry.

Her beauty attracted the attention of Giangiorgio Sforza Cesarini, a son of the Duke of Genzano, near Rome, where Maratta had retired.

These are Petrarchian-style sonnets, formally elegant and balanced according to the canons of the theorist Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni.

The youth sonnets had as their subject great female figures of the Roman world (Veturia, Tuzia, Porzia, Lucrezia), and often drew inspiration from the paintings of his father Carlo Maratta.

Much more felt are the rhymes of mature age that sing, with measured style, the family affections or the pain for the death of their son Rinaldo.