Luisa Sigea de Velasco
Luisa Sigea de Velasco | |
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Oil portrait of Luisa Sigea de Velasco, a Spanish humanist | |
| Born | 1522 |
| Died | October 13, 1560 (aged 37–38) Burgos, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet, classicist and intellectual |
| Literary movement | Humanism |
Luisa Sigea de Velasco (c. 1522 in Tarancón – October 13, 1560 in Burgos), also known as Luisa Sigeia, Luisa Sigea Toledana and in the Latinized form Aloysia Sygaea Toletana, was a poet and intellectual, one of the major figures of Spanish humanism. She spent a good part of her life at the Portuguese court in the service of Maria of Portugal (1521–1577), as her lady-in-waiting and Latin teacher.