Elena Barozzi

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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,

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]

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