A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Teodoro, Danti
TEODORO, DANTI,
Of Perugia, was born in 1498. She was a profound scholar in the exact sciences, and well acquainted with physics and painting. Never intending to marry, she employed herself in intellectual pursuits, and was honoured with general esteem. She has left an elaborate commentary on Euclid; also a treatise on painting, and several poems of an agreeable style. She died in 1573.