María

Querida Valeria,

¡Hasta la Republica! ¡Hasta la Libertad!

María Pacheco

Juan

Querida Valeria,

Respetuosamente,
Juan de la Cosa

Giordano

Dear Valeria,

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile… It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

Regards,

Giordano Bruno

Bartolommeo

Cara Valeria,

Vostro,

Bartolommeo Bandinelli

Beatrice

Cara Valeria,

is freeing yourself from injustice a crime or justice?

your affectionate Roman friend,

Beatrice Cenci

Anna

Dear Valeria,

Yours,


Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Jean

Chère Valeria,

On trouve aux champs pastoureaux sans brebis,
Clercs sans habits, prêtres sans bréviaire
Châteaux sans tours, granges sans fouragiz,
Bourgs sans logis, étables sans seulis,
Chambres sans lits, autels sans luminaire,
Murs sans parfaire, églises sans refaire,
Villes sans maire et cloîtres sans nonnettes
Guerre commet plusieurs faits deshonnêtes.

Vôtre,

Jean Molinet

Giuseppe

Cara Valeria,

con affetto,

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Lucrezia

Cara Valeria,

"Se gli uomini sapessino le ragioni della paura mia, Capir potrebbero il mio dolor."

Lucrezia Borgia, Signora di Pesaro e Gradara, Duchessa di Bisceglie e Principessa di Salerno, Duchessa consorte di Ferrara, Modena e Reggio

Willem

With regards,

Willem Barentsz

Nicolaus

Madonna Valeria,

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

My friends, however, in spite of long delay and even resistance on my part, withheld me from this decision.

My respects,

Nicolaus Copernicus

Louise

Dear Valeria,

The time having come, Mademoiselle, when the stern laws of men no longer bar women from devoting themselves to the sciences and disciplines, it seems to me that those who are able ought to employ this honorable liberty, which our sex formerly desired so much, in studying these things and show men the wrong they have done us in depriving us of the benefit and the honor which might have come to us. And if anyone reaches the stage at which she is able to put her ideas into writing, she should do it with much thought and should not scorn the glory, but adorn herself with this rather than with chains, rings, and sumptuous clothes, which we are not really able to regard as ours except by custom. But the honor which knowledge will bring us cannot be taken from us - not by the cunning of a thief, not by the violence of enemies, not by the duration of time.¹

Very warmest regards

Louise Labé

Girolamo

Spectabile Valeria,

Se il giovin quale Ulpian, Bartolo e Baldo
Disturban spesso e l'aspra inopia e dura
Non viene afforza al poetar men saldo,
E a l'avvocar rivolti ogni sua cura;
Io per certo infiammato esser e caldo
A fare il veggio un'immortal scrittura,
Gli dia la vita il Ciel, sostegno e 'l nido,
E 'l gran Cosmo udirà, d'altr'opra il grido.

Distinti Saluti,

Girolamo Maggi