It is there that she finally died of pneumonia, during the occupation of Milan by French revolutionary troops.Īgnesi may be considered a prime example of “Catholic Enlightenment”, an episode in Italian catholicism that tried to re-establish what was considered to be the “authentic church”. In 1771, she was appointed director of the female section of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio, a new institute in Milan to house the invalids and chronically ill. She did well in devout Catholic circles, just as she had been great in the salon of her father. The second part of her life, from 1752 onwards (the year of her father’s death), she turned to charitable work in the parish church and at the local city hospital. During the first part of her life, she spent much of her time discussing science in the salon of her father, and she was considered by many people a talented teacher and an original thinker in the mathematical sciences –in her case the present-day fields of physics and mathematics. Maria Agnesi led her life in service of others. Daughter of Pietro Agnesi (1690?-1752), a very wealthy Milanese silk merchant, and his wife Anna Brivio (1699?-1732). Maria Gaetana Agnesi (born in Milan, – died in Milan, January 9, 1799), famous for her textbook on calculus and her contributions to the discussions in the Milanese salon of her father.
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