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| | Biography: Aragona, Tullia d' |
 | | D'Aragona's canzoniere Rime della Signora Tullia di Aragona e di diversi a lei is comprised, as its title suggests, of poems--mostly sonnets--written by d'Aragona or addressed to her by a number of Italian men of letters or members of the Florentine ruling class. |
 | | These poetic recipients, correspondents, and dedicators include Girolamo Muzio, Benedetto Varchi, Ercole Bentivoglio, Francesco Maria Molza, Giulio Camillo, Anton Francesco Grazzini, Ludovico Martelli, Benedetto Arrighi, Latino Giovenale as well as Cosimo I de Medici, Eleonora di Toledo, Maria Salviati de Medici, and Cardinal Ippolito de Medici. |
 | | At least since 1535, d'Aragona had been in poetic correspondence with a number of men and adroitly makes use of the poems they dedicated to her to establish her identity as a woman of letters in sixteenth-century Italy. |
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