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Luisa Sigea de Velasco (1522 in Tarancón – October 13, 1560 in Burgos), also known as Luisa Sigeia, Luisa Sigea Toledana and in the Latinized form Aloysia Sygaea Toletana, was a poet and intellectual, one of the major figures of Spanish humanism, who spent a good part of her life in the Portuguese court in the service of Maria of Portugal (1521–1577), as her Latin teacher.
In Roman times, it was a significant port for travelling between Anatolia and Europe. According to the account in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas [8] and returned there from Europe (it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus occurred [9]).
Maria's education was astounding for a woman of her time since her teachers included female scholars, such as humanists Joana Vaz, Luisa Sigeia, and Públia Hortênsia de Castro. Lessons included finances, architecture, literature, and several languages. One of the most educated of the Portuguese infantas, Maria became a famed humanist and ...
Vespertiliavus (Sigeia) lizierensis [31] Subgen. et sp. nov Valid Maitre Late Eocene France. A sac-winged bat, a species of Vespertiliavus. Vespertiliavus (Sigeia) recens [31] Sp. nov Valid Maitre Early Oligocene France. A sac-winged bat, a species of Vespertiliavus.
Martim Afonso de Sousa was born in Vila Viçosa, and had been raised in the Duke of Bragança household and was a personal friend since childhood of King John III of Portugal, being also a cousin. [2]