Battista Sforza

• Battista Sforza - Wikipedia - English
• born - 1447
• died - 1472
• father - Alessamdro Sforza
• mother - Costanza da Varano
• married - Duke Frederico Battista married Federico in 1640 at the age of 13. Batitista received a humanist education and was fluent in Greek and Latin, giving here first Latin public speech at the age of four. She was said to be very skilled in Latin rhetoric and even gave an oration before Pope Pius II. The poet Giovani Santi described Battista as "a maiden with every grace and virtue rare endowed".

After giving birth to six daughters, Battista died a few months after the birth of her son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in 1472. Carrying on the family's tradition of humanist education for women, Battista's grandaughter Vittoria Colonna was a famous poet.