Antonia Tanini Pulci (c. 1452–1501) is considered the first Italian female vernacular playwright and one of Western Europe’s first published women writers. She was married to Bernardo Pulci, who was from a noble literary Florentine family. After her husband’s death, she became an ammantellata tertiary and founded the sisters of Santa Maria della Misericordia. Antonia wrote and published at least five religious plays in the 1490s, which are examples of sacre rappresentazioni, religious plays in one act that follow biblical or hagiographical subjects and can be mystery, morality, or saints’ lives plays. Three of her plays were printed in one of the earliest collections of Florentine plays, the Raccolta Miscomini from the 1490s. She may have been the first woman to see her work printed. Antonia’s plays were probably intended for the convent audience, and her plays contain intelligent female characters and deal with female concerns.