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Maria Selvaggia Borghini (Born at Pisa February 7, 1656 and died February 22, 1731) was an Italian poet during the second half of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century.

Biography
Educated by Giovanni Farinati, Governor of the College of Ricci at Pisa, Maria Selvaggia Borghini wrote elegantly in Latin beginning at the age of 11 years old. She also studied mathematics under the direction of the famous Alessandro Marchetti and other instructors who inspired in her a desire to learn other types of philosophy. She added to her knowledge by learning Greek.

A translator of Tertullien, she often collaborated with such geniuses as Magalotti, Salvini, Menzini, and Filicaja. From 1688 to 1689, she published, as an elegy to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany Vittoria della Rovere, various sonnets that Redi assessed as "noble and superb". Redi did not judge Borghini inferior to Colonna, believing instead that she surpassed through her writing and her understanding of all the arts and sciences, particuliarly  mathematics and philosophy. His esteem for her was such that he sent to her two of his sonnets so that she could review them. Borghini taught at the Accademia degli Stravaganti at Pisa, followed by an affiliation with the Académie d'Arcadie under her pseudonym Filotima Innia.