Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances write by Joyce de Vries. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic and religious rituals, and collected a dazzling array of clothing, jewelry, and household goods. By engaging in these realms of cultural production, de Vries suggests, Sforza manipulated masculine and feminine norms of behavior and effectively promoted her social and political agendas. Drawing on visual evidence, inventories, letters, and contemporary texts, de Vries offers a penetrating new interpretation of women's contributions to early modern culture. She explains the correlations between prescriptive literature and women's actions and reveals the mutability of gender roles in the princely courts. De Vries's analysis of Sforza's posthumous legend suggests that what we see as "the Renaissance" was as much a historical invention as a coherent moment in historical time.
Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10
Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10 write by Gina Luria Walker. This book was released on 2024-10-28. Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 10 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
Daughters of Alchemy
Daughters of Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughters of Alchemy write by Meredith K. Ray. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Daughters of Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.
Tigress of Forli
Tigress of Forli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tigress of Forli write by ELIZABETH. LEV. This book was released on 2019-12-12. Tigress of Forli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Caterina Sforza's life crossed the firmament of Italy's High Renaissance like a shooting star. In her 46 years she bore eight children and buried three husbands. She was painted by Botticelli, slandered by Machiavelli, and feted by Pope Sixtus IV. She was celebrated as a warrior who fearlessly led her own troops into battle, and ruthlessly defended her city-state of Forli, but Caterina was eventually defeated, imprisoned and raped by Cesare Borgia. Remembered as the author of a recipe book that went through more than 100 editions, Caterina was honoured at her death as 'without a doubt the first lady of Italy'. Her youngest son would become - like her - a brilliant soldier and a national hero, and the next four generations of her descendants would include two Dukes of Tuscany, a queen of France, and a queen of England.
Adriatic
Adriatic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adriatic write by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe. This book was released on 2022-08-15. Adriatic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adriatic recounts the shared history of the countries around the sea, from Italy to Croatia and beyond, from the Romans to the present.
