page_title: Públia Hortênsia de Castro
hierarchical_section_title: Públia Hortênsia de Castro
caption_attribution_description: Português: Busto de Públia Hortênsia de Castro (1548-1595) em Vila Viçosa (Portugal)
context_page_description: Públia Hortênsia de Castro was a scholar and humanist in the court of Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal.
  Born in 1548 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, she was named for Hortensia, the famous Roman orator and daughter of Quintus Hortensius, suggesting that her parents intended for her to become a well-educated woman. She evidently studied Greek and Latin, and by the time she was seventeen she was engaged in public debates on Aristotle. There are stories that, dressed as a boy and chaperoned by her brother, she attended the University of Coimbra, in Lisbon, but historians consider this unlikely. Nonetheless, she is known to have composed psalms in Latin, although they are now lost, and she was well enough admired by King Philip II that he granted her a pension for life.
  She eventually left the court and joined an Augustine convent. She died in Évora in 1595.
context_section_description: Públia Hortênsia de Castro (1548–1595) was a scholar and humanist in the court of Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal.
  Born in 1548 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, she was named for Hortensia, the famous Roman orator and daughter of Quintus Hortensius, suggesting that her parents intended for her to become a well-educated woman. She evidently studied Greek and Latin, and by the time she was seventeen she was engaged in public debates on Aristotle. There are stories that, dressed as a boy and chaperoned by her brother, she attended the University of Coimbra, in Lisbon, but historians consider this unlikely. Nonetheless, she is known to have composed psalms in Latin, although they are now lost, and she was well enough admired by King Philip II that he granted her a pension for life.
  She eventually left the court and joined an Augustine convent. She died in Évora in 1595.
caption: Bust of Publia Hortênsia de Castro in Vila Viçosa
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