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{{Short description|Florentine humanist and scholar}}
'''Alessandra Scala''' (1475–1506) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[poet]] and a [[Greek language|Greek]] scholar.
'''Alessandra Scala''' (1475–1506) was a [[Florence|Florentine]] [[Renaissance humanism|humanist]] and scholar of [[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] in the late fifteenth century.
 
== Biography ==
SheAlessandra Scala was born in 1475, the fifth daughter of the chancellor of Florence at the time, [[Bartolomeo Scala]], and was born in 1475.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |author last= Eliot, George Robin|first=Diana|title=Encyclopedia Theof Writingswomen ofin Georgethe Renaissance: EliotItaly, VolumeFrance, 1and England|publisher= BiblioBazaar ABC-CLIO|year= 20082007|pageisbn=191 978-1-85109-772-2|isbneditor-last=Robin|editor-first=Diana|location=Santa 0Barbara, CA|pages=332–333|editor-559last2=Larsen|editor-29442first2=Anne R.|editor-5last3=Levin|quoteeditor-first3= BartolommeoCarole}}</ref> Scala gavewas histaught Alessandrain topart theby Greekher Marullo…father }}</ref>and Scala[[Poliziano|Angelo Poliziano]], and also studied Ancient Greek under [[Janus Lascaris]] and [[AngeloDemetrios PolitianChalkokondyles]].<ref name=":01" /><ref>{{Cite journalbook|last=JardineKing|first=LisaMargaret L.|dateauthor-link=1985Margaret L. King|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16227152|title='ORenaissance Decushumanism Italiae: Virgo'foundations, orforms, Theand Mythlegacy|date=1988|publisher=University of the Learned Lady in thePennsylvania RenaissancePress|urlisbn=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420374/1/S0018246X00005070a.pdf0-8122-8066-0|journaleditor-last=Historical JournalRabil|editor-first=Albert|volume=281|location=Philadelphia|pages=799-819435|viaoclc=16227152}}</ref> and corresponded with [[Cassandra Fedele]].<ref name=":0" />
 
In 1493, Scala participated in a Florentine performance of [[Sophocles|Sophocles's]] ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]'' as Electra, and was highly praised for her acting in a letter from Poliziano to [[Cassandra Fedele]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Jardine|first=Lisa|date=1985|title='O Decus Italiae Virgo', or The Myth of the Learned Lady in the Renaissance|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420374/1/S0018246X00005070a.pdf|journal=Historical Journal|volume=28|issue=4|pages=807–810|doi=10.1017/S0018246X00005070|s2cid=159761599 }}</ref> She also corresponded with Fedele in Latin about marriage and scholarship between 1492 and 1493,<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Pesenti|first=Giovanni|date=1925|title=Alessandra Scala: Una figurina della Rinascenza fiorentina|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1310285417|journal=Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana|volume=85|pages=249–250|id={{ProQuest|1310285417}}|via=ProQuest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=King|first1=Margaret L.|author-link=Margaret L. King|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26096179|title=Her immaculate hand : selected works by and about the women humanists of Quattrocento Italy|last2=Rabil, Jr.|first2=Albert|publisher=Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies|year=1992|isbn=0-86698-124-1|location=Binghamton, N.Y.|pages=87–88|oclc=26096179}}</ref> and replied to love poems written in Greek that Poliziano sent her around 1493.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Pesenti|first=Giovanni|date=1925|title=Alessandra Scala: Una figurina della Rinascenza fiorentina|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1310285417|journal=Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana|volume=85|pages=252–254|id={{ProQuest|1310285417}}|via=Proquest}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Feng|first=Aileen A.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/970693924|title=Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender|date=2017|isbn=978-1-4875-1179-1|location=Toronto|pages=94–103|oclc=970693924}}</ref> Poliziano's praise of Scala's dramatic performance and his poetry addressed to her have been interpreted differently by scholars. While Pesenti views Poliziano as expressing genuine if unrealizable affection,<ref name=":4" /> more recently Feng and Jardine have argued that Poliziano's language draws upon previously established portrayals of a "beloved" in Renaissance love poetry, and that his portrayals did not treat Scala as an intellectual or scholarly equal to Poliziano.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":3" /> The only two pieces of Scala's work that survive, at least as far as Pesenti was able to find, are one of Scala's letters to Fedele and her poem in Greek replying to Poliziano.<ref name=":2" />
In 1494, she married Greek poet and soldier [[Michael Tarchaniota Marullus]] (c. 1458 – 1500);<ref>{{cite book |author = Stevenson, Jane |title= Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century |url = https://archive.org/details/womenlatinpoetsl00stev_672 |url-access = limited |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenlatinpoetsl00stev_672/page/n178 164] |isbn= 0-19-818502-2|quote= Alessandra Scala (1475-1506) married a fellow Greek scholar, Michael Marullo }}</ref> six years later Marullus died and Scala then entered the Florentine convent of San Pier Maggiore. She died there in 1506.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Robin, Diana Maury |author2=Larsen, Anne R. |author3=Levin, Carole |title=Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2007 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_m4x6/page/332 332–333] |isbn=1-85109-772-4 |quote=Scala, Alessandra (1475-1506) Alessandra Scala was born in 1475, the fifth daughter of the chancellor of Florence, Bartholomeo Scala… In 1494, Scala did marry, and the mate she chose was the Greek poet Michele Marullo. Six years later Marullo drowned while fording the Cecina River. Abandoning her Greek studies and her home, Scala entered the convent of [[San Pier Maggiore, Florence|San Pier Maggiore]] in Florence. She died there in 1506. |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_m4x6/page/332 }}</ref>
 
In 1494, she married the Greek poet and soldier [[Michael Tarchaniota Marullus]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Stevenson, Jane|url=https://archive.org/details/womenlatinpoetsl00stev_672|title=Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=0-19-818502-2|page=164|url-access=limited}}</ref> Six years later Marullus died, and Scala then entered the Florentine convent of [[San Pier Maggiore, Florence|San Pier Maggiore]]<ref name=":1" /> – Strocchia notes that it was the oldest and richest convent in the city, whose nuns were traditionally drawn from what Miller terms "the ruling class" of Florence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Strocchia|first=Sharon T.|date=August 2007|title=When the Bishop Married the Abbess: Masculinity and Power in Florentine Episcopal Entry Rites, 1300-1600|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00479.x|journal=Gender & History|language=en|volume=19|issue=2|pages=351|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00479.x|s2cid=143907245 |issn=0953-5233}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Maureen C.|date=October 2006|title=Why the Bishop of Florence Had to Get Married|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1017/S0038713400004280|journal=Speculum|language=en|volume=81|issue=4|pages=1060–1063|doi=10.1017/S0038713400004280|s2cid=163412470|issn=0038-7134}}</ref> She died there in 1506.<ref name=":1" />
 
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