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A mattress maker's daughter : the Renaissance romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza / Brendan Dooley.

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Main Description:A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a midd...

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Main Author: Dooley, Brendan Maurice, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Medici, Giovanni de', > 1567-1621 > Relations with women.
Vernazza, Livia, > 1590?-1655.
Princes > Italy > Biography.
Soldiers > Italy > Biography.
Women > Italy > Biography.
Mistresses > Italy > Biography.
Couples > Italy > Biography.
Renaissance > Italy > Biography.
Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Social change > Italy > History > 16th century.
Medici, Giovanni de', > 1567-1621.
Couples.
Manners and customs.
Mistresses.
Princes.
Relations with women.
Renaissance.
Social change.
Soldiers.
Women.
Italy.
Biographies.
History.

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Call Number: DG738.29.M43 D66 2014eb
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