The daughter of Giovan Michele, lord of Favale, a territory in Basilicata. Marked by destiny when her father was an expatriate in France and tried for treason, Isabella addressed him in her poems with heartbreak from the passion that upset her life. She was in love with poet Don Diego San Donal De Castro, who lived on a neighboring fief. The correspondence that the young woman carried on with him through a schoolteacher was discovered by her brothers, who killed all three of them. Benedetto Croce spoke of this poetess who, with her sorrowful figure, represents all women who are slaves and victims of a hostile reality, which hinders their free expression of life and feelings. Isabella’s human story, unique in the qualities of the protagonist, gives voice to women – whose story is and was similar to Morra’s – who have no voice.