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See also:OLYMPIA FULVIA See also:MORATA (1526-1555) , See also:Italian classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Ferrara . Her See also:father, who had been See also:tutor to the See also:young princes of the ducal See also:house of See also:Este, was on intimate terms with the most learned men of See also:Italy, and the daughter See also:grew up in an See also:atmosphere of classical learning . At the See also:age of twelve she was able to converse fluently in See also:Greek and Latin . About this See also:time she was summoned to the See also:palace as See also:companion and instructress of the younger but equally gifted See also:Anne, daughter of Renee, duchess of Ferrara . See also:Olympia's father having died a convert to Protestantism, she met with a See also:cold reception at the palace, and withdrew to her See also:mother's house . Olympia now embraced the doctrines of See also:Luther and See also:Calvin . About the end of 1550 she married a young student of See also:medicine and See also:philosophy, See also:Andrew Grunthler of See also:Schweinfurt in See also:Bavaria . In 1J54 she accompanied Grunthler to his native See also:place, where he had been appointed physician to the See also:garrison of See also:Spanish troops . In 1553 the See also:margrave See also:Albert of See also:Brandenburg on one of his plundering expeditions took See also:possession of Schweinfurt, and was in turn besieged by the Protestants . At length Albert evacuated the place, and Olympia and her See also:husband made their See also:escape . They finally succeeded in reaching See also:Heidelberg (1554), where a medical lectureship had been obtained for Grunthler through the See also:influence of the See also:Erbach See also:family, by whom they had been hospitably entertained during their See also:flight . Here she died on the 25th of See also:October in the following See also:year .
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