๐ต๐ป #Shiono Shichisei Series# ๐
๐ชถ Women of the Renaissance
๐ค Goethe said, "To know a woman is to know the truth of history." If you want to know a certain era deeply, then get to know the women of that era. โ
๐ค The Renaissance was an era of strong individuality, a time when women were seen as equal to men.
"Women of the Renaissance," Shiono Shichio's first work, is extremely detailed because she says that "truth is in the details, and simple generalizations are disrespectful to those who tried to survive that era."
๐ค The book depicts four women who lived during the Renaissance from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 16th century.
๐น Isabella de Este
Known as a "born statesman", bloodless politics (a combination of a lion and a fox), this beautiful lady has both a passionate and bold seven spirits and a rational spirit based on precise realism. It perfectly interprets the essence of the Italian Renaissance - thorough rationalism.
Sticking to the bottom line, she experienced the "Roman robbery", used beautiful female officials as political communication, and created the art book fast that is now called "the kingdom of heaven", and her motto "hopeless and fearless" hangs at the entrance of the book: life is there, and life is in front of you.
"This is a woman who should be king"!
๐น Lucrezia Borgia
Beautiful, her father is a prominent pope, her brother is a legend, Machiavelli's "Monarchy"
Known as Cesare, a man with perfect talent ("Become Caesar or be nothing. The Latin word "Caesar" is pronounced in Italian as "Cesare".
(Machiavellian thought: The ideal ruler must have the two qualities of fox "cool realism" and lion "bold boldness")
Married three times in his life, he had to become a political pawn.
๐น Katrina Sforza
Italian heroine - the most beautiful and cruel woman of the Renaissance. "I'm the daughter of a man who doesn't know what fear is," she said. โ
The most famous deed, I am afraid that the castle faced the enemy and blackmailed her with her son to lift her skirt and shout.
Her "obscene" words and actions were not vulgar at the time "considered bold", as evidenced by Shakespeare's works.
Katrina embodies the "beauty of youth" of the Renaissance: not a youth wasted on excessive sentimentality, but a calm spirit and brave youth based on reality.
๐น Caterina Cornaro
An absolutely simple woman, I don't feel deeply.
