Category

Renaissance women

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Lucrezia Borgia

Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480-1519)

Caterina Sforza

Lady of Imola and Countess of Forlì (1463-1509)

Isabella d'Este

Beatrice d’Este

duchess of Milan and Bari

Eleanor of Toledo

Duchess of Florence (1522-1562)

Veronica Franco

Italian poet and courtesan (1546-1591)

mistress to Pope Alexander VI

Isabella de' Medici

daughter of Cosimo I. de’ Medici and Eleonora of Toledo (1542-1576)

Bianca Maria Visconti

Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468

Tullia d'Aragona

Italian courtesan, author

Maddalena Casulana

Italian composer

Cecilia Gallerani

mistress of Italian noble Ludovico Sforza

Properzia de' Rossi

Sculptor from Italy

Sancha of Aragon

Princess of Squillace, illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples

Felice della Rovere

Illegitimate daughter of a Pope Julius II

Tarquinia Molza

Italian singer and composer

Italian engraver (1547–1612)

Greek printer (died 1507)

Bianca de' Medici

Italian noblewoman (1445-1505)

Benvenida Abrabanel

Italian philanthropist and businesswoman

mistress of Italian royalty

Urška Ferligoj

Slovenian shepherdess and seeress

Francisca de Lebrija

Spanish rhetorician

Luisa de Medrano

Spanish scholar

spouse of Alfonsino d'Este

Imperia Cognati

Italian courtesan

Italian noblewoman

Girolama Borgia

daughter of Pope Alexander VI

Públia Hortênsia de Castro

Portuguese philosopher

Anne de Graville

Laudomia Forteguerri

Italian poet (1515-ca. 1555)

Italian noblewoman

Ginevra de' Benci

Florentine aristocrat

Bradamante d'Este

Italian noblewoman

Flavia Peretti Damasceni

Italian noblewoman, Duchess of Bracciano