A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Levi, Justin de
LEVI, JUSTIN DE,
Daughter of Andre Perotti, of Sasso Ferrato, a descendant of the illustrious house of Levi, was born at Cremona, in the fourteenth century, and was a successful writer of Italian poetry. She was a contemporary and correspondent of Petrarch. She addressed to him a sonnet, to which he replied by another. But, to avoid the appearance of rivalry with this celebrated poet, she determined to write only in French. She married Louis de Puytendre, a French gentleman, living on the borders of the Khine, and was the ancestress of Clotilde de Surville.