Sappho ( VII-VI BC) Greek poetess of Lesbos. Educator of young girls nobles to whom he taught music; dance and poetry; for them wrote poems of refined sensibility and a wealth of pictures. Portrait by: 'gallery of the ancient Greeks and Romans with a small description of their lives' by Georg Wilhelm Zapf; dedicated the Altitude serenissima Charles Frederick Margrave of Baden; translation from German to Tommaso de Bassus (1742-1815) by Giuseppe Ambrosioni; Vol. II; 1784 Poschiavo