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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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Maria Maddalena Morelli

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Awards
Laurea poetica (1776)
Name
Maria Maddalena Morelli
Born
17 March 1727
Birthplace
Pistoia
Place of death
Florence
Nationality
Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Occupation
poet and writer.
Honours
Poet's Crown.
Languages
Italian.

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Maria Maddalena Morelli naquit à Pistoia, Italie (17 mars 1727) et mourut à Florence, Italie (8 novembre 1800).

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