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For one contemporary account, see Girolamo Ghilini’s Teatro d’Huomini letterati (Venice, 1647), 14–15. Context and Historical Background Accademia degli Immobili, which had been founded in Alessandria in 1562. His numerous letters show that his friends and correspondents included some of the most influential figures of contemporary Italy—heads of state, princes of the Church, nobles, writers, and diplomats. He was an ardent patriot, and in 1598 was sent as his country’s ambassador to swear an oath of fealty to the governor of Milan in the name of the king of Spain.

She has also learned to play the viola da gamba and can use it to accompany any song or part, as well as the clavichord, on which she can play a range of fashionable musical compositions and, if so required, continue playing and extemporizing for two hours or more at a stretch, with continual variations. In addition, she has mastered the art of counterpoint and has learned how to notate, under the guidance of not one but four music masters who have been coming to the house on a daily basis to teach her, all four 21.

His heir, Francesco, who graduated in jurisprudence from the University of Pavia, was elected mayor of Tortona, where he was highly esteemed, and he later became a senator in Milan. He married Clara Luce Stageno. Lavinia’s two sisters, Caterina and Veronica, both entered convents at an early age. L AV I N I A G U A S C A Lavinia was the eldest of Guasco’s three surviving daughters. She was born on the feast of Saint Anthony (June 13), 1574, in her parental home in Alessandria. While her two sisters were sent to be educated as boarders in the Alessandrian convent of Santa Marguerita, Lavinia was kept at home and educated partly by her father and partly by a whole series of hired tutors, always under her father’s strict supervision.

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