Women in the Renaissance

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Women in the Renaissance

• Rebecca Perfette, Lauren Rosenauer, Kimberlyn
  Stoddard

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Women in the Renaissance

• Average Woman

• Woman of the Renaissance

• Acquiescing
• Conservative
• Concerned with the household
• Secondary to man

• Forward-thinking
• Actively contributes to household income
• Educated
• Networking

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Lucrezia Borgia

• Best Known Accomplishments

Networking

• Doubled Yearly Income
• Bought marshland and invested in reclamation
  projects
• Raised animals
• Rented land

• Sister-in-law Isabella DEste
• Pietro Bembo

• Gossip

• Participant in incest
• Poisoned second husband

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Isabella dEste

• First Lady of the Renaissance

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Patron of the Arts

• Commissioned Mantegna's Expulsion of the Vices
  from the Garden of Virtue

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• Commissioned Lorenzo Costa's The Court of
  Isabella d'Este

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Her portraits
Leonardos portrait
Titans portrait
Gian Cristoforo Romanos Portrait
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Ruler

• Ruled when husband Gonzaga was prisoner
• Ruled after husbands death
• Made Mantua a sovereign territory

Ducal Palace Isabellas studiolo
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Music
Secular, sacred, liturgical, ceremonial, courtly
Latin and Italian
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Learner and a Teacher

• Greek and Latin
• Roman history
• Recited literature
• Opened a school for girls

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Sources
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1566798/Isabell
a-dEste

• www.guardian.co.uk/cultur/2003/jun/21/art

www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_s
ettings/isabella_d_este.php
www.davincismuse.com/about-da-vincis-muse-for-wome
n/isabella-deste
Songbook for Isabella Barker
womenshistory.about.com/od/medievalitalianwomen/ig
/Isabella-d-Este/Isabella-d-Este---The-Court.htm
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Catherine De Medici

• Queen of France

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Background

• Born 1519
• Married Henry II
• Queen of France 1547-1559
• Oldest son, Francis, married Mary Queen of Scots

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Religious Contributions

• In the beginning
• Tried to make peace during wars of religion
• Amboise
• Later
• Colloquy of Poissy(1561)
• Series of Royal Edicts
• Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day

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A Governing Mother

• Henry II died
• Francis II became King
• Only lasted 12 months
• Charles IX took over
• Charles died then Henry III took over
• Mary lost control of government
• Catherine took the chance to be the top governing
  figure

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First Wars of Catherines Reign

• After Catherine took Charles around France
• Netherlands revolt
• Spanish overlordship
• Surprise de Meaux (Huguenot)
• Attempted kidnap of Catherine and Charles

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The Third Civil War

• Huguenots
• Sieur de Cocqueville
• Flemish Borders
• Marshal Cosse
• Catherine ordered to hand out flemish prisoners
  to be punished
• Ended by peace of Saint Germain

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Arranged Marriages

• Henry of Navarre (Huguenot prince)
• Marguerite
• Need Papal dispensation
• Did not receive
• Needed consent from Henrys mother

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Henry and Marguerites Wedding Day

• Coligny shot
• Lost a finger
• Broke his arm
• Seigneur de Maurevert
• Shot came from Anne DEstes house
• Catherine blamed
• Jealousy of his influence on her son
• Plotted with Anne to make it seem like it was the
  Guises vendetta

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Her Children

• Francis II
• Charles IX
• Henry III
• Marguerite de Valois

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Through the Years
Young Catherine
Old Catherine
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Cites