I’m pleased to announce that Medici University has opened a Writer’s Lounge on campus at Tullia-4 & Tullia-12-3/4! Whether you’re in the Creative Writing Department or any other campus department, you’re welcome to come visit, hang out, converse, and rez what you like here. Perhaps a media-on-a-prim where visitors can sample your creative writing! Art will be adding the Writer’s Lounge Dome very soon, but the lounge is Open Now!
![wide view of the writer's lounge featuring chairs, a fireplace, seating cushions, and signage](https://i0.wp.com/mediciuniversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/WritersLounge.jpg?resize=600%2C284)
Tullia d’Aragona
Of course every neighborhood at MU is magical, but for all the “Maria vs Nostra” trash talking we’ve heard it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate Tullia. In addition to wonderful artists, Tullia is home to 3 of MU’s most beloved facilities:
![portrait of a Tullia d'Aragona as a reclining nude, 1600](https://i0.wp.com/mediciuniversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Joseph_Heintz_d._Ä._001.jpg?resize=600%2C306)
- Writer’s Lounge
- KATYPERRYOPOLIS!
- Life Drawing Studio
The Medici University Tullia neighborhood was named after Tullia d’Aragona (c. 1510–1556) a poet in my father’s court in Florence. When I was just 5 years old Tullia composed Dialogues on the Infinity of Love (1547), a Neo-Platonist assertion of women’s sexual and emotional autonomy within exchanges of romantic love. Who could possibly be a better patron saint for the MU Writer’s Lounge than a poet and thinker as remarkable as Tullia d’Aragona!
The Studios at Tullia
![Tullia d'Aragona, portrayed as Salome L'Erodiade by Moretto da Brescia, 1537](https://i0.wp.com/mediciuniversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Moretto_da_Brescia_-_Portrait_of_Tullia_dAragona_as_Salome_-_WGA16230.jpg?resize=277%2C400)
Tullia 1 – Astrid Rimbaud, Creative Writing
Tullia 2 – Studio Available!
Tullia 3 – Alexandre Lois, Music
Tullia 4 – Writer’s Lounge
Tullia 5 – studio eminent domain’d by MU Dept of Public Roads & Public Access
Tullia 6 – KATYPERRYOPOLIS! GM: Myra Wildmist
Tullia 7 – Uleria Caramel, Painting & Drawing
Tullia 8 – Fray Jigsaw, Neurosurgery
Tullia 9 – Life Drawing Studio, Facilitator: Jade Ravenheart
Tullia 10 – Sollox, Felicia Day School of Management
Tullia 11 – Artistik Oluja, Media Archaeology
Tullia 12 – Myra Wildmist, Photographic Arts
Tullia 12-1/2 – Ariel 1101, World Design
Tullia 12-3/4 – Writer’s Lounge
Tullia 13 – Aurora (VestaAurora) Creative Writing
Tullia 14 – Elle Thorkveld, Interdisciplinary Art
Studios at Medici University
For a complete list of studios in all the Medici University neighborhoods: Aurelia, Camilla, Maria, Nostradamus, Tullia, Vashti & Eleonora Slough:
About Tullia d’Aragona
![cover of translated text](https://i0.wp.com/mediciuniversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tullia-DialogOnTheInfinityOfLove.jpg?resize=268%2C400)
- Tullia d’Aragona / Wikipedia
- Rime di Tullia d’Aragona, cortigiana del secolo XVI by Tullia d’ Aragona / Project Gutenberg
- Tullia d’Aragona / Internet Archive
- Dialog on the Infinity of Love, 1547 / Google Books
- Dialog on the Infinity of Love, 1547 / Goodreads
Image: Tullia d’Aragona, as Salome L’Erodiade / Moretto da Brescia, 1537
Image: Liegender weiblicher Akt (Tullia d’Aragona) / Joseph Heintz the Elder, 1600
Image: Dialog on the Infinity of Love / University of Chicago Press
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