Cvijeta Zuzorić
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Cvijeta Zuzorić (also Flora Zuzori, sometimes Floria Zuzzeri) (Dubrovnik, 1552 - Ancona, 1600) was a Croatian lyric poetess from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote in Croatian and Italian.
She was born in Ragusa into a prominent merchant family, she was daughter of Frano Zuzorić and Marina Radaljević. Brought up in Italy, she married in 1577, a Florentine nobleman, Bartolomeo Pescioni who had been Florentine consul in Dubrovnik: the couple moved to Italy in 1582. Being a well educated woman, she invited numerous authors and artists to her house, which was home to a widely known literary academy. Zuzorić was an exceptionally beautiful and intelligent woman, was said to have written excellent epigrams and gentle rhymes, which, however, have not survived. She is known only by reputation, since she was mentioned and celebrated in countless poems by Dinko Zlatarić, Miho Bunić-Babulinov, Miho Monaldi, Boccabinco, Simonetti, Marin Batitera, her contemporaries, as well as later Ragusean authors.
It is interesting to note that she was also mentioned in the sonnets of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso, who praised her virtues and beauty even though he had never met her. Her great friend Nikola Vitov Gučetić and his wife Marija Gundulić Gucić described her physical and spiritual beauty in his famous philosophical work on love, a treatise on the Meteors of Aristotle.
See also
Sources
- Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
- Slučaj Cvijete Zuzorić. Državni udar ljepotom Template:Hr icon
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