NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the RenaissanceStatue of Dante Aligheri, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

• Women who inspired the Renaissance• Scholasticism• The chivalric literary tradition• Dante Aligheri, 1265-1321• The Divine Comedy• Beatrice Portinari

• Petrarch, 1304-1374• Laura, the muse for his

sonnets• Boccaccio, 1313-1375• Maria, his “fiametta”

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance

Statue of Niccolo Machiavelli, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

• Women excluded from the Renaissance• Coluccio Salutati, 1330-1406

• “The active life”• Leonardo Bruni, 1370-1444

• Humanism, from humanitatis• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,

1463-1494• Oration on the Dignity of Man

• Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527• The Prince

• Baldassare Castiglione, 1478-1529• The Book of the Courtier

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance

Portrait of a man and a woman at a casement, Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1444, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Marriage and/or love in Renaissance Italy• Dowries and dowry funds

• Monte delle Doti of Florence, est. 1425

• Architecture of enclosure• Women as managers of the

household and family• Alessandra Strozzi, fl. 1400-

1450• Affair of Giovanni di Ser Ludovico

della Casa and Lusanna, 1442/3-1454/5

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, built 1489-1538.

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance

Miniature of Christine de Pizan presenting a book to Queen Isabeau of France, c. 1414, British Library.

• Women as writers and patrons• Christine de Pizan, 1365-1430

• The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405

• The Book of the Body Politic, 1404-1407

• The Tale of Joan of Arc, 1429• Isotta Nogarola, 1418-1466• Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of

Mantua, 1474-1539• Vittoria Colonna, 1492-1547

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance

The Chess Game, by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1555, National Museum, Poznań, Poland.

•Women as artists• Sofonisba Anguissola, ca.

1532-1625• Lavinia Fontana, 1552-

1614

Sofonisba Anguissola: left—Self Portrait at Easel, 1556, Łańcut Palace, Poland; right—Three Children with Dog, by Sofonisba

Anguissola, c. 1580, Collection of Lord Methuen, Corsham Court, Bath.

Sofonisba Anguissola: Portrait of Philip II of Spain (the Prado Philip), 1565, the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Lavinia Fontana: Left—Self Portrait at the Virginal with a Servant, 1577, Academia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome; right—Portrait of a

Noblewoman, 1580, National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Lavinia Fontana: left—Portrait of the Gozzadini Family, 1584, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; right—Minerva

Dressing, 1613, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!: Women and the Renaissance

Veronica Franco, a 16th century Venetian courtesan, by Tintoretto, 1575, Worcester Art Museum.

• Honored courtesans (cortigiana onesta)• Veronica Franco, 1546-1591