Gaspara Stampa

When Gaspara was eight, her father died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with her children, whom she educated in literature, music, history, and painting.

Gaspara and Cassandra excelled at singing and playing the lute, possibly due to training by Tuttovale Menon.

Stampa went into a physical prostration and depression, but the result of this period is a collection of beautiful, intelligent and assertive poems in which she triumphs over Collaltino, creating for herself a lasting reputation.

The parish register where she lived in Venice records her cause of death as fever, colic and mal de mare (Venetian for "disease of the sea").

The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, refers to Gaspara Stampa in the first of his Duino Elegies; which is often considered his greatest work.