She is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi  second volume (1611), in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student.
She is the earliest known female composer of monody. Her only work, "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, was included in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi second volume (1611), and Quinciani is noted as a student by Negri.