Luisa Sigea de Velasco
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| - | '''Luisa Sigea de Velasco''' ([[Tarancón]], [[1522]] — [[Burgos]], [[October 13]], [[1560]]) was a [[Spanish]] [[poetess]] and [[intellectual]] of the 16th century. One of the first works of Western [[erotic fiction]], ''[[Académie des dames ou le meursius francais |Dialogues of Luisa Sigea]]'', was falsely ascribed to her. | + | '''Luisa Sigea de Velasco''' ([[Tarancón]], [[1522]] — [[Burgos]], [[October 13]], [[1560]]) was a [[Spanish]] [[poetess]] and [[intellectual]] of the 16th century. One of the first works of Western [[erotic fiction]], ''[[Académie des dames ou le meursius francais |Dialogues of Luisa Sigea]]'', was falsely ascribed to her. [[André de Resende]] wrote the following [[epitaph]] for her: "Hic sita SIGAEA est: satis hoc: qui cetera nescit Rusticus est: artes nec colit ille bonas", (Loosely: "Here lies Sigea; no more need be said; anyone who does not know the rest is an [[uneducated]] fool.") |
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| - | '''Luisa Sigea de Velasco''' ([[Tarancón]], [[1522]] — [[Burgos]], [[October 13]], [[1560]]), also known as '''Luísa Sigeia''', '''Luísa Sigea Toledana''' and in the Latinized form '''Aloysia Sygaea Toletana''', was one of the major figures of Spanish [[humanism]], who spent a good part ofher life in the Portuguese court in the service of [[Maria de Portugal]] (1521-1577), as her Latin teacher. [[André de Resende]] wrote the following [[epitaph]] for her: "Hic sita SIGAEA est: satis hoc: qui cetera nescit Rusticus est: artes nec colit ille bonas", (Loosely: "Here lies Sigea; no more need be said; anyone who does not know the rest is an [[uneducated]] fool.") | + | |
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Luisa Sigea de Velasco (Tarancón, 1522 — Burgos, October 13, 1560) was a Spanish poetess and intellectual of the 16th century. One of the first works of Western erotic fiction, Dialogues of Luisa Sigea, was falsely ascribed to her. André de Resende wrote the following epitaph for her: "Hic sita SIGAEA est: satis hoc: qui cetera nescit Rusticus est: artes nec colit ille bonas", (Loosely: "Here lies Sigea; no more need be said; anyone who does not know the rest is an uneducated fool.")
