Nicoletta Pasquale, known also as Coletta Pasquale or Paschale (Latin: Nicoletta Paschalis) (fl.
Nicoletta Pasquale was a noblewoman of Messina,[a] a poet and intellectual.
She was mentioned by the historian Antonio Mongitore in his biographical work Bibliotheca Sicula,[2] which in turn was used as a source for the work L'istoria della volgar poesia (History of vernacular poetry) by the literary critic Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, first published in 1698.
Nicoletta Pasquale left a legacy of several sonnets and a sestina.
Some of her poetic contributions were published in Il sesto libro delle rime di diversi eccellenti autori[3] and in Il Tempio alla divina signora donna Giovanna d'Aragona,[4] both anthologies collected and edited by Girolamo Ruscelli and published in Venice in 1553 and 1555, respectively.