Morata

Morata, OLYMPIA, a 16th-century scholar, was born at Ferrara in 1526, the daughter of the poet Fulvio Pellegrino Morato (who died in 1547). Already in her sixteenth year she gave public lectures in her native city; but, having in 1548 married the German physician Andreas Grundler, she followed him to Germany and became a Protestant. Driven from place to place by the religious wars, and reduced to penury, she died at Heidelberg, 26th October 1555, leaving numerous Latin and Greek poems, mainly on religious subjects (edited 1558, 1870, &c.), a treatise on Cicero, dialogues, letters, &c. See the Monograph by Bonnet (4th ed. Paris, 1865).