Hipòlita Roís de Liori is Estefania de Requesens' mother (c. 1504-1549), prominent epistle writer, from whom 102 letters are preserved. Both of them had huge correspondence. The letters of Hipòlita Roís de Liori and Estefania de Requesens are contextualised in private, business, familiar and feminine collected letters. We have to think about letter writing as an intrinsic labour of her position. According to Ahumada (2003), some women of that time received and wrote a large amount of correspondence. Collected letters of Jerònima de Requesens, Guiomar d’Hostalric, Dionísia de Montpalau, Hipòlita de Zúñiga, Caterina Llull Bastida, etc., are in the Arxiu del Palau (the Archive of the Palace), as the Arxiu de la Reial Capella del Palau Menor de Barcelona (the Archive of the Royal Chappel of the Palau Menor of Barcelona) is known.
These letters can be linked to the epistle tradition from the Middle Ages, in which we discover figures like queens Violant of Bar or Margaret of Prades, or the correspondence between Beatriu and Joana de Pinós. Likewise, it can be linked with the collected love letters (made of three letters) between Isabel de Suaris and the poet Bernat Fenollar at the end of the 15th century. In the context of Valencian women of 15th and 16th centuries, it has to be linked with the letters of the Borgia family, for instance, those of Francesca de Jesús (1498-1557), Lluïsa de Borja i d'Aragó (?-1560) and the letters written by other Valencian women like Jerónima de Virués (16th century), poet Cristóbal de Virués' sister.
The Sad countess of Palamós was a friend of María de Mendoza Fonseca (1508-1554), marchioness of Cenete and duchess of Calabria, a humanist aristocrat.
Hipòlita Roís de Liori belongs to the historical territory of the Crown of Aragon.
Hipòlita Roís de Liori
(The Sad countess of Palamós)
Valencia c. 1479 ‖ Madrid 1546
Període d'activitat: Des de 1520 fins 1546
Classificació geogràfica: Europa > Espanya
Moviments socio-culturals
Edat Moderna > Humanisme
Grups per àmbit de dedicació
Governants > Emperadrius / Reines / Nobles
Professionals / Altres grups > Empresàries / Directives / Administradores
Escriptores > Epistològrafes
Context de creació femenina
Ressenya
Hipòlita Roís de Liori, known as "the Sad countess of Palamós", as she signed her letters, was a noble from Aragon. She was the widow of Lluís de Requesens, governor of Catalonia, and she had two children. She lived in Valencia and Barcelona. She was in charge of the heritage she had to manage, and she was a constant writer of letters for managers, as well as for her friends and, especially, her daughter, Estefania de Requesens. She wrote 89 letters, mainly in Catalan, that have been preserved.
Justificacions
Biografia
Hipòlita Roís de Liori was born in Valencia, c. 1479. She was a noble from Aragon, and the daughter of Joan Roís de Liori i de Mur and Beatriu de Montcada i Vilaragut. She got married with Lluís de Requesens, governor of Catalonia, on 3rd of April 1501, but he died on 16th November 1509. They had two children, Gaspar (who died when he was a child) and Estefania de Requesens (1504-1549). When her husband died, Estefania was his universal inheritor and Hipòlita was the benefitial owner. She lived between Valencia and Barcelona. She went to Barcelona when she was married, and she entered into the public life discreetly. Since her husband's death, she became "the Sad countess of Palamós", and she signed her letters in that way, following the model of that time. When she was thirty years old, Hipòlita started to be concerned about the huge heritage that she had to manage and about teaching her daughter about the house and the Court. She had to have correspondence with her managers, friends, and, especially, with her daughter, Estefania de Requesens. She died in Madrid in 1546, when she was 67 years old.
Obres
Epistles. Eighty-nine letters out of eight hundred of the collected letters of her family, mostly written in Catalan.
Bibliografia
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Ahumada Batlle, Laia de (2003-2004). «Correspondència privada: la història entre línies», Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, XLIX , pp. 463-472.
Ahumada Batlle, Laia de (2004). Hipólita Roís de Liori (1479-1546), Madrid: Ediciones del Orto.
Ahumada Batlle, Laia de (2007). «Les dones Requesens a través del seu epistolari. Des d'Estefania "glòria i honor de les dones" fins a Mencía "suprema dama catalana"», dins El redescobriment de l'Edat Moderna. Estudis en homenatge a Eulàlia Duran, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia Montserrat, pp. 63-81.
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Enfocament Didàctic
The work of this author can be used in the blocks of literary education of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of ESO in the subject of Valencian language and literature. It can also be useful in the block of reading and writing, and in the block of knowledge of the language. (Epistle genre, commercial relationships, heritage management, technological innovations...)
As manager of a huge heritage, and innovative in some aspects of textile manufacturing, she can be studied in subjects like economy, technology, geography and history. The relation between the mother and the daughter, as well as the aspects described in the letters can be useful for ethical values, biology...