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Camilla Faà

Camilla Faà

Camilla Faà di Bruno, also da Casale, also Camilla Faà Gonzaga (c. 1599 – 14 July 1662) was an Italian noble who was married secretly, briefly and morganatically to Ferdinando the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat. Repudiated by her husband she became a nun and the sixteen page memoir which she wrote in 1622 at the behest of her Mother Superior has been described as the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman. Her story was the subject of Paolo Giacometti’s historical drama Camilla Faa da Casale, first performed at the Teatro Nuovo, Florence on 29 October 1846.

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Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua


Fernando I Gonzaga, em italiano Ferdinando I Gonzaga (Mântua, 26 de abril de 1587 – 29 de outubro de 1626) era um membro da Dinastia Gonzaga, que veio a ser Duque de Mântua e Duque de Monferrato de 1612 até à morte.

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