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Costanza Varano (1426–1447) was a noted humanist, scholar, and writer in early modern Italy. She is regarded as "one of the best known learned women" of the mid-15th century.
Overview. Costanza Varano. (1426—1447) Quick Reference. (1426–47) grew up in Pesaro, where she was partly educated by her grandmother, Battista Malatesta da Montefeltro, and became an accomplished Latinist; several letters, orations, and poems are preserved. In ... From: Varano, Costanza in The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature »
For by your prudence and victorious f46 Holt N. Parker Costanza Varano (1426-1447); Latin as an instrument of State 47 right hand you have tamed nations barbaric in their savagery, and endowed your God, the creator of all, made you endowed with land piety, own citizens with civil laws and well-approved customs.
- Holt Parker
Costanza Varano (1426-1447) was born into the ruling family of Camerino, a remote mountainous territory in the region of the Marche. After her father was murdered by his brothers in 1433, Costanza’s mother Elisabetta da Montefeltro Malatesta (1407-1477) fled with her children to Pesaro, taking refuge with the girl’s grandmother Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta (1384-1448).
Carlo II Manfredi (1439–1484) was a lord of Faenza, in northern Italy. Born in Faenza, Romagna, he was the son of Astorre II Manfredi. He succeeded the latter in 1468 as Papal vicar in the city and its neighbourhood. In 1471 Carlo married Costanza da Varano, daughter of Rodolfo da Varano, lord of Camerino.
Feb 11, 2009 · Indeed, this paper is built around the careers and works of five distinguished women intellectuals of that period: Isotta Nogarola (1418–66); Costanza Varano (1426–77); Cassandra Fedele (c. 1465–1558); Laura Cereta (1469–99); and Alessandra Scala (1475–1506). There is, however, a serious point to my choice of words in the title.
Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta (1383-1450), herself a scholar, helped educate her granddaughter Costanza Varano.1 Battista’s daughter, Elisabetta, married Pier Gentile da Varano, who in 1433 was executed during the course of a family struggle for the rule of the town of Camerino. Elisabetta fled with Costanza, the heir Rodolfo, and two ...
