A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Baroni, (Leonora)
Was the daughter of Adriani Baroni, an excellent female singer of Mantua. With less beauty than her mother, Leonora excelled her in the sweetness and power of her voice, and had a more profound knowledge of music. She had a good understanding and a pleasing talent for poetry; and, what was still more, her conduct was without reproach. In a treatise on the Music of Italy, published at Paris, in 1672, she is said, from her knowledge of musical composition, perfectly to have understood what she sung, and to have pronounced the words clear and full. She sung with modest confidence and gravity. The powers of her voice were extensive, true, sweet, and clear; sinking and rising without effort and without grimace. Her whole deportment was dignified by a noble simplicity, neither contaminated by design or affectation, corrupted by the flatteries of the gay, or the poetical applauses of the learned.
Her poems appear in different collections.