Moderata Fonte, whose real name was Modesta Pozzo or da Pozzo, was born in Venice on 15 June 1555 into a well-to-do family - her father was a lawyer - that belonged to the class of 'original citizens' of Venice, a second-rate nobility just after the patricians. He was only one year old when the plague killed his parents. Together with her brother, she then went to live in her maternal grandmother's house, but a relative, greedy for the patrimony of which the orphan girl was the custodian, secretly took her away and placed her in a nunnery.At the age of nine, she returned to her grandparents' h
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