Marietta Robusti 1560 and died when she was thirty during child birth. She lived in Venice all her life. She was the eldest daughter of the painter Jacopo Robusti, from whom she inherited her nickname, la Tintoretta (translated as "little dyer girl", after Jacopo’s father’s occupation as a "tintore", or dyer). She is thus variously known as Marietta Robusti, Marietta Tintoretto, and la Tintoretta. She was followed by three brothers and four sisters. Since conventions of the time dictated that women remained in the privacy of the domestic sphere and were not welcome in the public world of art production and sale,
Jacopo da Leona Jacopo da Leona Jacopo da Leona, also spelt Iacopo (died 1277) was a medieval Italian jurist and poet. Beginning his career as a notary, he became a nobleman's secretary and later a judge. Sixty of his sonnets survive. Beginning life as Jacopo del Tancredo in the village of Levane, Arezzo, he took his later surname from the Castle of Leona ("Castello di Leona"), on which his village depended. Here Jacopo began to learn the work of a notary, under the patronage of the family of Ubertini of Arezzo, and one of the Ubertini, Ranieri, employed him as a secretary. Jacopo