Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel: Difference between revisions

Pimentel was born in Rome of a Portuguese noble family. She wrote poetry, read [[Latin]] and Greek and spoke several languages (Italian, Portuguese, French and a little English) As a child, she moved with her family to Naples following political difficulties between the Papal States (of which Rome was the capital) and the Kingdom of Portugal. Her mother's death in 1771 left her with a substantial dowry, and she became engaged to her first cousin, Miguel Lopes. In 1776 the engagement broke off, and her father acquired a husband for her, Pasquale Tria de Solis, lieutenant of Neapolitan Army, whom she married In 1778. In October of the same year, she gave birth to a son, Francesco. However, the infant died about eight months later. He was Eleonora's only child because violence by her husband resulted in two miscarriages. These tragedies, however, led to the creation of several of her most notable works.