A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Cerda, (Bernarda de la)

CERDA, (BERNARDA DE LA) a Portugueze Lady, who flourished at the Beginning of the seventeenth Century, and was celebrated by all the Spanish and Portugueze Academies.

She spoke many languages with facility, understood rhetoric, philosophy, and mathematics, and wrote well in prose and verse. Her present works consist of a Poetical Selection, a Volume of Comedies, &c.

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