Lucia Quinciani was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of monody

Monody

In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another's death....

. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini

Giovanni Battista Guarini

Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.- Life :He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567...

's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi (1611), in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

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