Maddalena Aceiaiuoli

Maddalena Salvetti Aceiaiuoli was a 16th-century noblewoman and poet from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Family

Aceiaiuoli was born to Lucrezia and Salvetto Niccolini on 25 March 1557 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. She became a member of the noble Acciaioli family by her 1582 marriage to General Zanobi Aceiaiuoli, an official of the Grand Duchy and Knight of St. Stephen. They had one son, Mario Aceiaiuoli, who was born on 25 August 1583.

Writing

In 1590, Aceiaiuoli published Rime ''Toscane in honour of the marriage between Ferdinando I de' Medici and Christina of Lorraine. She used sixteen different rhyme schemes.
Aceiaiuoli also wrote the heroic poem Il David perseguitato o vero fuggitivo on the theme of the biblical King David, which was dedicated to the Tuscan princess Maria Maddalena de’ Medici. The unfinished epic was published posthumously in 1611, after she had died in 1610.
Cornelio Lanci dedicated his comedy La Niccolosa'' to Aceiaiuoli. A biography of the nun Birgitta of Sweden was translated into Italian vernacular for Aceiaiuoli by Lodovico Domenichi as a gift. The translation was not printed or circulated.