Maria Maddalena Morelli
Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez (17 March 1727, Pistoia – 8 November 1800, Florence), also known by the Arcadian pseudonym Corilla Olimpica, was a Florentine Italian poet, improvisatrice, and musician. The official poetess to the grand ducal court in Florence (1765–1775), she won fame as the foremost female performer of the improvised poetry then popular in Italy, and was controversially crowned with the laurel wreath on the Roman Capitol in 1776, an event later fictionalised by Madame de Staël in Corinne, or Italy.
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- Laurea poetica (1776)
- Name
- Maria Maddalena Morelli
- Born
- 17 March 1727
- Birthplace
- Pistoia
- Place of death
- Florence
- Nationality
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
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- poet and writer.
- Honours
- Poet's Crown.
- Languages
- Italian.
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• Awards — Laurea poetica (1776) • Name — Maria Maddalena Morelli • Pen Name — Corilla Olimpica • Born — 17 March 1727 • Birthplace — Pistoia • Place of death — Florence
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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1727 at Pistoia. It is also recorded that maria Maddalena Morelli died in 1800 at Florence.
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Maria Maddalena Morelli (17 March 1727 – 8 November 1800) is described as a writer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Maria Maddalena Morelli was born in Pistoia, Italy (17 March 1727) and died in Florence, Italy (8 November 1800).
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- 2.Giovanni La Cecilia, Storie segrete delle famiglie reali, vol. IV, Genova, 1859, p. 656.
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