ABSTRACT
Lorenza, or Laurentia, Strozzi was a Dominican nun from one of the leading families in Florence, the sister of the learned Cyriacus Strozzi, an architect and philosopher who taught at the University of Bologna, and the daughter of Zacharias Strozzi. She was brought up in the Dominican convent of San Niccolò in Prato, and at thirteen decided to remain there and make her profession as a nun, changing her name to Lorenza (or in its Latin form, Laurentia) from her birthname of Francesca. At the age of seventy-four, after sixty years of blameless obscurity, she published a book of Latin hymns in a variety of meters, to considerable acclaim.
