RENAISSANCE PEOPLE

Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives f rom between 1400 and 1600. They include the aristocratic matriarch Alessandra Strozzi, who sneaked around Florence to spy on potenti al brides for her sons/ the notorious criminal Catena, who wasn't satisfied with murdering his enemy but also hamstrung his victim's goats/ Isotta Nogarola, a promising young writer who was mortified to have a critic sneer at her that 'an eloquent woman is never c haste'/ ...[Read more]