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