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  1. The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God by Massimo Mazzotti, 2007-10-24
  2. A Biography Of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, An Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations by Antonella Cupillari, 2008-04-30
  3. Analytical Institutions in Four Books; Originally Written in Italian by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 2010-01-03
  4. The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Diamante Medaglia Faini, et all 2005-05-16
  5. Religieuse Italienne: Gemma Galgani, Françoise Romaine, Catherine de Sienne, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Maria Lorenza Longo, Claire D'assise (French Edition)
  6. Agnesi, Maria Gaëtana: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Mathematics</i> by Shirley B. Gray, 2002
  7. La bruja de Agnesi: su criatura no vuela en escoba, pero es tan exacta y aguda que aun hechiza a los matematicos.(Maria Gaetana Agnesi, matematico )(Biografia): An article from: Contenido by Estela Osorio, 2002-08-01
  8. Maria Gaëtana Agnesi: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Judson Knight, 2000
  9. Analytical Institutions in Four Books: Originally Written in Italian, Volumes 1-2 by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, 2010-02-17
  10. Women Mathematicians: Ada Lovelace, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Grace Hopper, Hypatia, Emmy Noether, Sofia Kovalevskaya
  11. 1718 Births: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Hilaire Rouelle, Israel Putnam, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Thomas Chippendale, Victor-François
  12. Chiarezza e Metodo: L'indagine Scientifica di Maria Gaetana Agnesi
  13. Mathématicienne: Emmy Noether, Sophie Germain, Émilie Du Châtelet, Hypatie, Ada Lovelace, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Nicole-Reine Lepaute (French Edition)
  14. Italian Linguists: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Leon Battista Alberti, Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Mario Alinei, Mario Pei

1. Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. 1718 1799. Hansell, Sven. Agnesi, Maria Teresa in TheNew Grove Dictionary of Music Musicians, Edited by Stanley Sadie, 1995.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
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Even though her contribution to mathematics are very important, Maria Gaetana Agnesi was not a typical famous mathematician. She led a quite simple life and she gave up mathematics very early. At first glance her life may seem to be boring, however, considering the circumstances in which she was raised, her accomplishments to mathematics are glorious. Enjoy! During the Middle Ages, under the influence of Christendom, many European countries were opposed to any form of higher education for females. Women were mostly deprived from the fundamental elements of education, such as reading and writing, claiming that these were a source of temptation and sin. For the most part, learning was confined to monasteries and nunneries which constituted the only opportunity for education open to girls during the Middle Ages. After the fall of Constantinople (today Istanbul), many scholars migrated to Rome, bringing Europe knowledge and critical thinking, which in turn gave rise to the Renaissance. However, except in Italy, the status of women throughout Europe changed very slowly. In Italy, however, where the Renaissance had its origin, women made their mark on the academic world. Intellectual women were admired by men, they were never ridiculed for being intellectual and educated. This attitude enabled Italian women to participate in arts, medicine, literature, and mathematics. Among many others, Maria Gaetana Agnesi was by far the most important and extraordinary figure in mathematics during the 18th century.

2. Maria Teresa D'Agnesi
Maria Teresa d Agnesi Sonata per il clavicembalo (H.Heldstab) Accordingto the entry in the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
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3. Agnesi
Maria Gaëtana Agnesi. Pietro Agnesi did just that Some accounts of MariaAgnesi describe her father as being a professor of mathematics at Bologna.
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Born: 16 May 1718 in Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
Died: 9 Jan 1799 in Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy) Click the picture above
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the daughter of Pietro Agnesi who came from a wealthy family who had made their money from silk. Pietro Agnesi had twenty-one children with his three wives and Maria was the eldest of the children. As Truesdell writes in [16], Pietro Agnesi:- ... belonged to a class intermediate between the patricians and the merely rich. Such a bourgeois could have a household fit for a lord, comport himself like a knight, mingle freely with some nobles, occupy himself with the finer things of life, be a patron of men of talent. Pietro Agnesi did just that... Some accounts of Maria Agnesi describe her father as being a professor of mathematics at Bologna. It is shown clearly in [12] that this is entirely incorrect, but the error is unfortunately carried forward to [1] and will also be seen in a number of other places. Pietro Agnesi could provide high quality tutors for Maria Agnesi and indeed he did provide her with the best available tutors who were all young men of learning from the Church. She showed remarkable talents and mastered many languages such as Latin, Greek and Hebrew at an early age. At the age of 9 she published a Latin discourse in defence of higher education for women. It was not Agnesi's composition, as has been claimed by some, but rather it was an article written in Italian by one of her tutors which she translated and [16]:-

4. Poster Of Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. lived from 1718 to 1799. Agnesi is noted forher work in differential calculus. She discussed the cubic curve
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi lived from 1718 to 1799 Agnesi is noted for her work in differential calculus. She discussed the cubic curve now know as the 'witch of Agnesi'. Find out more at
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Born May 16, 1718 in Milan, Italy to a mathematics professorfather, Pietro Agnesi, Maria s main focus was differential calculus.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi
In 1749, Maria Agnesi was appointed Chair of Higher Mathematics at the University of Bologna by Pope Benedick XIV. The pope said this of Agnesi and her work: Permit me, mademoisells, to unite my personal homage to the plaudits of the entire Academy. I have the pleasure of making known to my country an extremely useful work which has long been desired, and which has hitherto existed only in outline. I do not know of any work of this kind which is clearer, more methodic or more compreshensive than hyour Analytical Institutions. There is none in any language which can guide more surely, lead more quickly, and conduct further those who wish to advance in the mathematical sciences. I admire particularly the art with which you bring under uniform methods the divers conclusions scattered among the works of geometers and reached by methods entirely different. (H. J. Mozans, Women in Science, [N. Y.: D. Appleton, 1913]) She served in the position of Chair of Mathematics for two years, 1750-1752, until the death of her father. He was the driving force behind her interest in mathematics, and she immediately stopped her practice of the subject after he died. Some speculate that the only reason she entered into the field was because of her father's love for mathematics. Maria was quiet and deeply religious, and, unlike others of her time, was not looking to become a well-known mathematician. When she gave up mathematics after the death of her father, she worked at a home for ill and dying women. She never again took an interest in mathematics, and helped the homeless and needy until her death on January 9, 1799.

6. Maria Agnesi
Maria Agnesi. born May 16, 1718 in Milan died January 9, 1799. This work ischaracterized by its careful organization, its clarity and its precision.
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Maria Agnesi
born: May 16, 1718 in Milan
died: January 9, 1799 This work is characterized by its careful organization, its clarity and its precision. There is no other book, in any language, which would enable a reader to penetrate as deeply, or as rapidly, into the fundamental concepts of analysis. We consider that treatise the most complete and best written of its kind.
(French Academy of Science, 1749) Wrote the first textbook for teaching calculus. Cared for the sick and dying. Until the 20th century, very few women in Europe or elsewhere received even a rudimentary education, and the path to more advanced studies was usually blocked to them. Consequently, very few women contributed to the development and distribution of the ideas of calculus. Agnesi was an exception and definitely an exceptional woman. She was the oldest of 21 children of a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna, and her education started early. By the age of 9 she was fluent in several modern languages as well as Latin, Greek and Hebrew. During her teens, she privately studied the mathematics of Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Euler and others. She also tutored the younger children in the family and served as hostess at scientific and mathematical meetings arranged by her father. Her first book was based on these meetings, and in it she supported the concept of higher education for women. It was published when she was 20. For the next 10 years she worked on her two volume mathematics book, Analytic Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth, which was finally published in 1748. Volume one dealt with algebra and precalculus mathematics, and volume two contained differential and integral calculus, infinite series and differential equations. In it she managed to distill the diverse research writings and methods of a number of mathematicians into a clearly written and well organized textbook which could be used to learn calculus. It also contained a number of her own original contributions to the field.

7. Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 January 9,1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi May 16 January 9 ) was an Italian linguist mathematician , and philosopher . Agnesi is credited with writing the first book which discussed both differential and integral calculus . She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek Hebrew French Spanish ... German and other languages . Two years later her father began to assemble in his house at stated intervals a circle of the most learned men in Bologna , before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in de Brosse's Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae , which her father caused to be published in . These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent. Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana , a work of great merit, which was published Milan in . The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals . A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d'Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (

8. Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 January9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi May 16 January 9 ) was an Italian linguist mathematician , and philosopher . Agnesi is credited with writing the first book which discussed both differential and integral calculus . She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek Hebrew French Spanish ... German and other languages . Two years later her father began to assemble in his house at stated intervals a circle of the most learned men in Bologna , before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in de Brosse's Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae , which her father caused to be published in . These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent. Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana , a work of great merit, which was published Milan in . The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals. A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d'Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (

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Maria Gaëtana AgnesiMaria Gaëtana Agnesi. 17181799. Maria Agnesi was the eldest of 21 children ina wealthy family. Her father could provide high quality tutors for Agnesi.
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10. Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. 1718 – 1799. Maria Agnesi was a famous female mathmatician.She was born in Italy on May 16, 1718 and died on January 9, 1799 in Italy.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi Maria Agnesi was a famous female mathmatician. She was born in Italy on May 16, 1718 and died on January 9, 1799 in Italy. Maria was the eldest of 21 children. Her father was Pietro Agnesi and because of his wealth he was able to afford her the best tutors in the land. He earned his wealth through silk, but many readings have also stated him as being a mathematican. Maria did many things but her most notable is known as "the witch of Agnesi." Maria Agnesi was known for being a child prodigy (called the "oracle of the seven tongues); by the time she was nine years old she knew many different languages and would give performances on her knowledge in a special room of her father's home. She was very shy, but she wanted to please her father so she continued to show her talent to many others. Due to the time and the fact that she was a female, higher education for women was not practiced, so at the age of nine she published a Latin discourse defending education for women. This was done with the help of one of her tutors. When she was twenty she published "Propositiones Philosophicae" which was a series of essays on philosophy and natural science. These essays would be a topic of discussion many times and she would defend them with all her knowledge. Her free time was spent studying religious books and learning mathematics. She wrote a commentary that was never published on de L'Hopital's "Traite analytique des section coniques." Another book that she had published was "Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana." This book was written in Italian, published in her home and was meant to be used as a textbook for her brothers. Her next book had two volumes, "Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana" and was published in 1748. This was to bring her much fame.

11. Agnesi
Translate this page agnesi maria Gaetana, italienne, 1718-1799. Philosophe, polyglotteérudite (parlant, en particulier, couramment le grec et le latin
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AGNESI Maria Gaetana, italienne, 1718-1799 Philosophe, polyglotte érudite (parlant, en particulier, couramment le grec et le latin), elle fut la fille particulièrement douée d'un professeur de mathématiques de l'université de Bologne et se fit connaître (1748) par un important traité d'analyse, Instituzioni Analitiche Cubique d'Agnesi : Cette courbe fut en fait préalablement étudiée par Fermat et Grandi : il s'agit d'une du fait d'une mauvaise traduction anglaise witch of Agnesi Grandi versiera diablesse, la tournante , ou la roulante (ce qui rappelle la roulette de Pascal), du latin versare signifiant tourner a a ,0). Une demi-droite d'origine O coupe le cercle en N et la tangente en T. a , et la versiera xy = a (a - x) y = 3 (3/x - 1) et y = -3 (3/x - 1) versiera y = a /(a + x M M x = a.cos (t) , y = a.tan(t) p p Hypatia Germain Kovaleskaia Stewart Mayer

12. Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Enciclopedia Libre
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Artículo de la Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español María Gaetana Agnesi Milán 16 de mayo de - Id. 9 de enero de ) se distinguió con gran precocidad como políglota y polemista ilustrada. Se la recuerda sobre todo como matemática , aunque también se la califica de lingüista filósofa , y más raramente teóloga
En publicó Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana , tratado al que se atribuye haber sido el primer libro de texto que trató conjuntamente el cálculo diferencial y el cálculo integral, explicitando además su naturaleza de problemas inversos. Traducidas al inglés y francés, las Instituzioni tuvieron gran impacto en la enseñanza, pues armonizaban en un discurso único materiales dispersos y heterogeneos de matemáticos anteriores, mostrando por primera vez una secuencia lógica y didáctica desde el álgebra hasta las ecuaciones diferenciales Entre y consta que era catedrática de matemáticas en la Universidad de Bolonia , seguramente de forma honorífica. Durante los cuarenta y siete años siguientes, dedicó su vida y hacienda a la caridad y al cuidado de los pobres, hasta encontrar la muerte en el mismo hospicio que había dirigido, ya fuera como menesterosa residente, como monja de la congregación, o más probablemente como ambas cosas, pues tal era el sentido de su vocación.

13. Maria Teresa Agnesi
Maria Teresa d Agnesi. 17201795. No information currentlyavailable. Main Page. E-mail about this Composer.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Everything you wanted to know about Maria Gaetana Agnesibut had no clue how to find it.. Learn about Maria Gaetana Agnesi here!
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi May 16 January 9 ) was an Italian linguist mathematician , and philosopher . Agnesi is credited with writing the first book which discussed both differential and integral calculus . She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek Hebrew French Spanish ... German and other languages . Two years later her father began to assemble in his house at stated intervals a circle of the most learned men in Bologna , before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in de Brosse's Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae , which her father caused to be published in . These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent. Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana , a work of great merit, which was published Milan in . The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals . A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d'Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (

15. Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Mathematician (1718 – 1799) here s one child MariaGaetana Agnesi was one smart woman. By the age of nine she
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi aversiera , which in Italian means to turn. The word is also a slang short form the avversiere, Even in her own lifetime, Agnesi was very highly regarded in the world of mathematics. She was appointed to the chair of higher mathematics at the University of Bologna by Pope Benedick XIV himself. In his speech, the Pope proclaimed that there was no one in any language who could guide more surely, lead more quickly, or conduct further those who wish to advance in the mathematical sciences than she. For more information on this remarkable woman read Women in Science, H.J. Mozans, 1913, D. Appleton and Company, or check out one of the following sites: UK history site The Agnes Scott College collection The Living Witch of Agnesi

16. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maria Gaetana Agnesi
An Italian woman of remarkable intellectual gifts and attainments. Member of the Blue Nuns in Milan. (17181799)
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versiera , is also called "the Witch of Agnesi". Maria gained such reputation as a mathematician that she was appointed by Benedict XIV to teach mathematics in the University of Bologna, during her father's illness. This was in 1750, and two years later her father died. Maria then devoted herself to the study of theology and the Fathers of the Church. Her long aspirations to the religious life were destined to be gratified, for after acting for some years as director of the Hospice Trivulzio of the Blue Nuns in Milan, she joined the order and died a member of it, in her eighty-first year. JOHN J. A'BECKET
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17. Maria Agnesi"
agnesi, maria GAETANA. mathematician (1718-1799) One of her solutions for an algebraic equation is still found in today's textbooks. lady may be found on UK history project listing on maria agnesi or from Agnes Scott College section on maria agnesi
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AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA
mathematician - (1718-1799) One of her solutions for an algebraic equation is still found in today's textbooks. The solution follows a curve now called the "witch of Agnesi" not because she was thought to be a witch, but because the shape of the curve was called aversiera , which in Italian means to turn. The word is also a slang short form for the avversiere which means wife of the devil. A series of mistranslations over time finally set the name of curve to the "witch of Agnesi". We now present the Living Witch of Agnesi . Watch the curve grow before your very eyes. She was a child prodigy. By the age of nine she wrote, read and spoke Italian, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish and Hebrew, and was known as the "oracle of the seven tongues". When Pope Benedick XIV appointed her to the chair of higher mathematics at the University of Bologna he said Permit me, mademoisells, to unite my personal homage to the plaudits of the entire Academy. I have the pleasure of making known to my country an extremely useful work which has long been desired, and which has hitherto existed only in outline. I do not know of any work of this kind which is clearer, more methodic or more comprehensive than your Analytical Institutions. There is none in any language which can guide more surely, lead more quickly, and conduct further those who wish to advance in the mathematical sciences. I admire particularly the art with which you bring under uniform methods the divers conclusions scattered among the works of geometers and reached by methods entirely different."

18. Agnesi
In a fleeting moment we would like to have the vanity to call this web siteA Complete maria Gaetana agnesi, providing both mathematics and history.
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T his site is a collection of Agnesi miscellany built upon many exciting hours spent in some of the greatest libraries in the English speaking world. We highly recommend that you pause to look at the Bibliography and Acknowledgments web sites to appreciate our far flung efforts to provide students with a tantalizing smattering of the strength of resources in mathematics. The opportunity to see as well as to know is the gift of our generation. Easy foreign travel is also another gift. May your local classroom education provide you with the background to fully appreciate the original sources you see in the future, be it those of mathematics, architecture, art, or any of the other rich treasures of civilization. In a fleeting moment we would like to have the vanity to call this web site A Complete Maria Gaetana Agnesi

19. Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
agnesi, maria Gaetana (17181799). maria agnesi was the first woman inthe Western world who could accurately be called a mathematician.
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Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (17181799) Maria Agnesi was the first woman in the Western world who could accurately be called a mathematician. Her father encouraged Agnesi's interest in scientific matters by securing distinguished professors as her tutors and by establishing a substantial library and learning center in their home. Agnesi developed an intense interest in mathematics at an early age, and a t 14, she was solving difficult problems in analytic geometry and ballistics. As early as 17, she wrote a critical commentary on the Trait analytique des sections coniques by L’Hospital Agnesi was a well-published scientist by age 20 and an honorary faculty member of the University of Bologna by age 30. A decade of concentrated work culminated with the publication of her calculus book I n stituzioni analitiche ad uso dell a giovent italiana in 1748. This book received acclaim in academic circles all over Europe. The book's objective was to give a complete and comprehensive treatment of algebra and calculus. Newton was still alive when Agnesi was born, so that the development of the differential and integral calculus was still in progress during her lifetime.

20. Maria Teresa D'Agnesi
Biography and list of her known works.
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According to the entry in the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers: Italian composer, harpsichordist, singer and librettist. As a girl she performed in her home while her elder sister Maria Gaetna (1718-99; she became a distinquished mathematician) lectured and debated in Latin. Charles de Brosses, who heard them on 16 July 1739 and was highly impressed, reported that Maria Teresa performed harpsichord pieces by Rameau and both sang and played compositions of her own invention. Her first theatrical work, Il restauro d'Arcadia, was successfully presented in Milan's ducal theatre in 1747. At about this time she dedicated collections of her own arias and instrumental pieces to the rulers of Saxony and Austria; according to Simonetti the Empress Maria Theresa sang from a collection of arias that Agnesi had given her. She married Pier Antonio Pinottini on 13 June 1752 but had no children. Her next opera, Ciro in Armenia, produced a the Regio Ducal Teatro in 1753, was to her own libretto. In 1766 her Insubria consolata was performed in Milan to honour the engagement of Beatrice d'Este and the Archduke Ferdinand. Her portrait hangs in the theatre museum of La Scala; other portraits are reproduced in the encyclopedia Storia di Milano (vols xii, xiv). Works:
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