Maddalena Campiglia

[3] Her intellectual development was accelerated by moving in the cultural circles meeting at the Vicenza villa owned by her cousin Elena, wife of the Marquis Guido Sforza Gonzaga.

[4][2] Presumably at the villa Gonzaga she met Dionisio da Colzè (or Calzé) whom she married in 1576; the marriage lasted until 1580, the year in which they separated and she began to live alone.

In her will she requested to be buried in the same vault as Abbess Giulia Cisotta, near the church of Santa Maria d'Araceli in Vicenza.

Campiglia expressed this concept in "Discorso intorno all'Annunciazione della Vergine" ("Discourse on the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary"), printed in Vicenza in 1585.

In real life Calisa is Isabella Pallavicini Lupi, marquise of Soragna, protector of Campiglia, to whom the author also dedicated several other sonnets.