Source:
Eccentric Biography; or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters, Ancient and Modern, pages 91 to 92, by anonymous author, 1803; original at The British Library
The biography:
... Her reign was that of learning and genius; she drew about her, wherever she was, all the distinguished characters of her time; Grotius, Paschal, Bochart, Descartes, Gassendi, Saumaise, Naude, Vossius, Heinsius, Melbom [sic], Scudery, Menage, Lucas, Holstenius [sic], Lambecius, Bayle, Madam Dacier, Filicaia, and many others. The arts never fail to immortalize the prince who protects them, and almost all these illustrious persons have celebrated Christina either in poems, letters, or literary productions of some other kind, the greater part of which are now forgotten. They form, however, a general cry of praise and a mass of testimonials which may be considered as a solid basis of reputation. Christina, however, may be justly reproached with want of taste, in not properly assigning the rank of all these persons, whose merits, though acknowledged, were yet unequal; particularly for not having been sufficiently sensible of the superiority of Descartes, whom she disgusted, and at last wholly neglected. ...
Above: Kristina.
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