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Article: Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I.(Renaissance Woman)(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2007
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Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I, by Gabrielle Langdon. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv, 372 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $35.00 US (paper).
Renaissance Woman, by Gaia Servadio. New York, I.B. Tauris. xii, 274 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).
Gabrielle Langdon's Medici Women explores the many layers of meaning embedded in portraits of women connected with the sixteenth-century Florentine court of Cosimo I de' Medici. In chapters on Cosimo's mother, wife, various daughters, a ward, and a niece, Langdon interweaves often little-known biographical, information about the women with in-depth analysis of ...