Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (died 1704)

Isabella Leonarda

Italian composer (1620–1704)

Isabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life. Leonarda is most renowned for the numerous compositions that she wrote during her time at the…