A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Alphaizuli, (Maria)
ALPHAIZULI, (MARIA) Poetess of Seville, during the Time the Moors had Possession of Spain.
She was called the Arabian Sappho; and excellent works of her composition are in the library of the Escurial. Many Spanish women, her cotemporaries, particularly in the province of Andalusia, cultivated the Muses with success.
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