ABSTRACT
Her two best known works were Guerhno II Meschino, a poem of approximately 30,000 lines in 36 cantos of ottava rima and her Dialogue on the Infinity of Love published in Venice in 1547. In her preface to Guerrino, she defends the rights of women to education and attacks those writers who include indecent material in their books, even including Ariosto in her criticisms. Her Dialogue on the Infinity of Love is an account of the conversations between herself and Benedetto Varchi, the Florentine philosopher and historian. Tullia d'Aragona appears to have returned to Rome and to have died in 1569-1570. A portrait supposedly of her, by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as II Moretto, is in the Martinengo Gallery at Brescia.
