Did Catholic Church accept Laure Cereta?

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge, Laure Cereta died a good Catholic, the only records that I can find regarding her relationship with the Catholic Church was a reference of a letter she wrote to a Cardinal:

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(from the website Renaissance,Reformation, and the New Science in Europe 1450-1700)

17.2 Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza

Laura Cereta (1469-1499) was born into a wealthy family and lived in Brescia, Italy, where she received a Renaissance education and became a humanist. Modern scholars identify Cereta as a feminist because her writings stressed the education and training of women beyond what was widely acceptable for her time. She wrote a letter to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza explaining her education, love for reading and writing, and the trials she faced as an aspiring female author, which she published as part of a larger volume in 1488. Cereta sought advice from a respected church official on what to do about the negative treatment she would receive if she were to continue writing during the Renaissance, Reformation, and New Science in Europe, 1450-1700 231. However opinionated her letter may be, it reveals the different educational expectations for men and women during this period.

Source: Cereta, Laura. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. translated and edited by Diana Robin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 101-2.

To Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza

Though I was untrained and scarcely exposed to literature, through my own intelligence and natural talents I was able to acquire the beginnings of an education. While my pleasure in embarking on such a journey of the mind and my love of study were strong at the outset, the weak seeds of my small talent have grown to such a degree that I have written speeches for public occasions, and these I embellished grandly, paintings pictures with words in order to influence people and stimulate their minds. My love of reading caused me to sample different kinds of subjects, and only in study did I feel a sense of inner contentment. And, although I remained ill-equipped for the task despite my passion for learning, I reached a decision that awakened in me a desire for fame and honor, as though my mind were challenging itself to scale new heights.… To get back to my story then, at the end of my childhood, when I was approaching adolescence and was becoming more mature in my understanding of literature, a nobler thought came to me. Accordingly, I devoted myself to other kinds of books, giving myself over to insomniac nights and study, like someone who has a passion for mathematics. If my intellect did not reveal to me things I longed for at that time, at least I had been allowed to cross the fourfold threshold to knowledge.… Now that I have availed myself of the counsel of religious texts, wherein writings about morality combine profundity with unity, I have found satisfaction in literature that would give me not smoke and darkness but something perfect, secure, and lasting. Since men receive an education in literature and other studies, however, so that they may benefit from the example of their forebears, the most elect men of diverse orders have said publicly that education has been wasted on me because it has benefitted only me and not others. I am happy to have the opportunity to express my opinion about something that may exonerate me from criticism. I preferred to please the crowd rather than myself. Stimulated by the desire for fame, I was drawn into a prodigious error in the course of my writing. Namely, the first thing that I wrote was a funeral oration composed to be read over the corpse of a donkey. This one humble oration stirred up the envy of a number of men, who cruelly sharpened the teeth of their spite against me, and as though their mouths had been swords, I was left trembling like a lamb among wolves. Full of their mockery of me, these men did not hesitate to dishonor me with their spittle, while I was hard-pressed by my wounds.