Renaissance Woman
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1850434212
ISBN-13
9781850434214
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
I.B. Tauris
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 2nd, 2008
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
582 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 16.30 x 2.70 cms
Ksh 11,700.00
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The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a "New Woman", proposes Gaia Servadio. She follows four key women - Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Louise Labe, and Elizabeth I - through the rise and fall of the Renaissance.
The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a "New Woman", proposes Gaia Servadio. Central to her theory are the lives of women like Vittoria Colonna, lover of Michelangelo, Tullia d'Aragona, the best known courtesan of her age, and the French poet Louise Labe, who fought in battle in male clothing. Servadio follows these women through the rise - and fall - of the Renaissance in Italy and France, moving northwards to the Low Countries, and, in the person of Elizabeth I, to England. They are placed centre stage to the Renaissance's power plays and wars, paintings and architecture, courtesans and popes, music and manners, fashion, food, cosmetics, changing societies, and the language of poetry and symbols. "Renaissance Women" tells the story of an age when women became more masculine and men more feminine.
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