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Document Details : Title: 'Doctissimae Heroinae', 'Memoriae Ergo' Subtitle: A Memorial Inscription (1615) and a Presentation Letter (1616-1617) by Johanna Othonia (Ghent 1548/1549 - Antwerp ca. 1621/1622) Author(s): DE SCHEPPER, Marcus Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 72    Date: 2023    Pages: 295-305 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.72.0.3292724 Abstract : Johanna Othonia (Ghent 1548/1549 - Antwerp ca. 1621/1622) is the only woman Latinist of the Low Countries with more than a single published volume of Latin (only) verse, Carminum diversorum libri duo (Strasbourg, 1616) and Poematia sive Lusus extemporanei (Antwerp, 1617). Two recently discovered documents, a memorial inscription (1615) and a presentation letter (1616-1617), here published for the first time, offer some new information on Othonia’s activities and personality. Othonia’s lifelong role model, her 'doctissima heroina', was the Italian Protestant Latin writer Olympia Fulvia Morata (Ferrara 1526 - Heidelberg 1555).

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