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Geronima Parasole was a maker of woodcut prints, operating in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The sister of Isabella Parasole, Geronima was also an accomplished practitioner in what seems to have been the family trade.

Geronima's woodblocks and engravings were used in a 1592 catalogue of classical coins by Antonio Augustin - possibly "the first printed book to have contained illustrations by a woman". In common with other engravers and woodcut printers, the images were not usually of Parasole's own design, but rather were printable versions of an original by another artist. However, she seems in some cases to have added elements of her own - for instance, changing some parts of Antonio Tempesta's Battle of the Centaurs. In some of her illustrations the initals PMF or GMF are seen, indicating Parasole/ Geronima me fecit (Parasole/ Geronima made me).

She died in 1622.