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MORATA, OLYMPIA FULVIA (1526-1555)

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MORATA, OLYMPIA FULVIA (1526-1555)

MORATA, See also:
OLYMPIA
OLYMPIA FULVIA (1526-1555) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian classical See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

FERRARA

Ferrara. Her See also:

FATHER

father, who had been See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the See also:

young princes of the ducal See also:

house of See also:

Este, was on intimate terms with the most learned men of See also:

Italy, and the daughter See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up in an See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere of classical learning. At the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twelve she was able to converse fluently in See also:

Greek and Latin. About this See also:

time she was summoned to the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace as See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion and instructress of the younger but equally gifted See also:

Anne, daughter of Renee, duchess of Ferrara. Olympia's father having died a convert to Protestantism, she met with a See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold reception at the palace, and withdrew to her See also:

MOTHER

mother's house. Olympia now embraced the doctrines of See also:

LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther and See also:

CALVIN, JOHN (1509-1564)

Calvin. About the end of 1550 she married a young student of See also:

MEDICINE

medicine and See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, See also:

Andrew Grunthler of See also:

SCHWEINFURT

Schweinfurt in See also:

BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria. In 1J54 she accompanied Grunthler to his native See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, where he had been appointed physician to the See also:

garrison of See also:

SPANISH

Spanish troops. In 1553 the See also:

MARGRAVE (Ger. Markgraf)

margrave See also:

Albert of See also:

BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg on one of his plundering expeditions took See also:

possession of Schweinfurt, and was in turn besieged by the Protestants. At length Albert evacuated the place, and Olympia and her See also:

HUSBAND

husband made their See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape. They finally succeeded in reaching See also:

HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg (1554), where a medical lectureship had been obtained for Grunthler through the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the See also:

ERBACH

Erbach See also:

FAMILY

family, by whom they had been hospitably entertained during their See also:

FLIGHT

flight. Here she died on the 25th of See also:

OCTOBER

October in the following See also:

YEAR

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