ABSTRACT
Though Margaret L. King and others have made Isotta Nogarola a well-known figure, her aunt, born into the earliest generations of humanism, remains obscure.1 She was of a distinguished Veronese family, the eldest child of Antonio Nogarola and his wife Bartolomea de Castronovo. We know almost nothing about her apart from the fact of her marriage in 1396 to Antonio II, count of Arco and a general portrait given by (Jacopo) Philippo de Bergamo (Foresti), 1434-1520, praising her learning and piety.2 She may have been educated at least in part by Antonio Lusco (see below). Letters from Lusco’s son Niccolò (c. 1436) and Tobias Burgus (1438) to Nogarola’s nieces Isotta and Ginevra imply that she had died by that time.3
