Nogarola

The Nogarola were an aristocratic family of Verona, named for their estates at Nogarole Rocca, who served the ruling Scaliger dynasty as soldiers and diplomats. Bailardino Nogarola, born around 1270, was knighted in 1295 and became a trusted councillor of Cangrande I.

Bailardino went as Scaliger ambassador to Emperor Henry VII in Milan in 1311, stood beside Cangrande when Padua was taken in 1328, and arranged the succession of Mastino II and Alberto II at Cangrande's death in 1329. He died in 1340.

In the fifteenth century Leonardo Nogarola and his wife Bianca Borromeo gave their daughters a humanist education. Their daughter Isotta, born in 1418, became the first major female humanist of the Renaissance, famed for her Latin dialogue on the sin of Adam and Eve; her aunt Angela was a Latin poet.