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carried out a study of writings circulating in manuscript that were attributed to
Berinzaga, and condemned them as "new and dangerous", based on "imagination or illusions". Gagliardi and Berinzaga were censured, and avoided being referred to the
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Isabella was born in Milan, probably in 1551, into the
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