Nicoletta Pasquale
Nicoletta Pasquale, known also as Coletta Pasquale or Paschale was an Italian poet.Biography
Nicoletta Pasquale was a noblewoman of Messina, a poetess and intellectual, about whose education and private life very little is known. She was mentioned by the historian Antonino Mongitore in his biographical work Bibliotheca Sicula, which in turn was used as a source for the work L'istoria della volgar poesia by the literary critic Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, first published in 1698.Works
Nicoletta Pasquale left a legacy of several sonnets and a sestina. Some of her poetic contributions were published in Il sesto libro delle rime di diversi eccellenti autori and in Il Tempio alla divina signora donna Giovanna d'Aragona, both anthologies collected and edited by Girolamo Ruscelli and published in Venice in 1553 and 1555, respectively.
