Medici Women
Subtitle: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany
By: Edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown ; Italian essays translated by Monica Chojnacka
Contributors: Tomas, Natalie; Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Series: Essays and studies -- 36; Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) -- 36.
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780772721808
Subjects: Women; Nobility; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Judith C. Brown; title: Eleonora di Toledo, regency, and state formation in Tuscany / Natalie Tomas; title: Isabella de' Medici : unraveling the legend / Elisabetta Mori; title: Joanna of Austria and the negotiation of power and identity at the Florentine court / Sarah Bercusson; title: Christine of Lorraine and medicine at the Medici court / Sheila Barker; title: Foreign mothers and the international education of Medici children : Christine of Lorraine and Maria Maddalena of Austria at the Medici court / Maria Pia Paoli; title: Margherita de' Medici Farnese : a Medici princess at the Farnese court / Adelina Modesti; title: The gender politics of Vittoria della Rovere / Giovanna Benadusi; title: Connected courts : Violante Beatrice of Bavaria in Florence and Siena / Giulia Calvi; title: Anna Maria Luisa, electress palatine : last art patron and collector of the Medici dynasty / Stefano Casciu; title: Between dynastic strategies and civic myth : Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and Florence as the new Athens / Marcello Verga.