She was married to Horace Landi, a noble Florentine; but being exceedingly devout, obtained his permission to retire from the world, which she did after some time, founding the orders of the Incarnation and the Trinity. She had weak health, and spent her time mostly in prayer and penitence, dying 1639.
Though she only knew how to read and write, she had a talent for poetry, and composed in stanzas of eight lines many Lives of saints, in three-lined verse; a large volume of Spiritual songs, &c. After her death, they were collected and transcribed. Crescimbeni, in his Histoire de Poësie Vulgaire, says, that they abound in theological and moral thoughts, and charitable sentiments.
LAVAGGI (ANNE), a Nun of Palermo; died 1704, aged 73.
She had printed, during her life, many beautiful pieces of poetry; more were collected after her death; and a manuscript is still in being of hers, a Prose Explication of the Apocalypse.
LEÆNA, Courtesan of Athens,
Took an active part in the conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogiton against Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus.
