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Camilla Faà di Bruno, also da Casale, also Camilla Faà Gonzaga (c. 1599 – 14 July 1662) was an Italian noble who was married secretly, briefly and morganatically to Ferdinando the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat. Repudiated by her husband she became a nun and the sixteen page memoir which she wrote in 1622 at the behest of her Mother Superior has been described as the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman. Her story was the subject of Paolo Giacometti’s historical drama Camilla Faa da Casale, first performed at the Teatro Nuovo, Florence on 29 October 1846.

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Born	Camilla Faà di Bruno 1599
Died	14 July 1662 (aged 63)
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Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua 1587-1626 Duke of Mantua and Montferrat · m. 1616; div. 1616 info edit

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Francesco Giacinto Teodoro Giovanni info 1st child with Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua Male b. 4 Dec 1616 Age: 408 1616- Celebrity Baby

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Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Duke of Mantua and Montferrat

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Married · 19 Feb 1616

Aug 1615 - Sep 1616

Divorced · 1 child

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