Portrait of Elena Barozzi, unknown artist

Elena Barozzi (1514 - 1580)^[1] was a celebrated Venetian patrician.

Life

Elena's reputation for her elegance is praised by the poets and painters of her century. Titian and Giorgio Vasari portrayed it.^[2] The poet Lelio Capilupi dedicated the ballad to her Ne l'amar e fredd'onde si bagna.^[3] The poet Fortunio Spira comparing it to the beauties of classical antiquity,^[4] also the writer Lodovico Domenichi describes her as Greek for beauty and Roman for personality likes Lucretia.^[5]

Elena Barozzi, for her fine intellectuality was admired and courted by the finest men of her time. She had a relationship and a daughter with Lorenzino de' Medici, the daughter named Lorenzina born in 1547, future wife of Giulio Colonna.^[6]

Notes

References

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