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Caterina. A name, a destiny…. “Sforza” comes from the Italian verb “sforzare”, which means “to force”. Over the decades this term became a family name referred to the Sforza men, strong and ambitious captains who reached important leading positions during the age of the Italian city-states. Also known as “The tigress of Romagna ...
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Sep 19, 2017 · Caterina Sforza was deeply immersed in the empirical culture of her day (Ray, 2010).As her correspondence attests, she was known to her contemporaries for her interest in alchemical experiments as well as in medicinal and cosmetic recipes and compiled the information she collected in a manuscript that she passed on to her son, Giovanni delle Bande Nere (Sforza, 1894, Nigrisoli 1928, Nigrisoli ...
Caterina Sforza ( Milánó, 1463 – Firenze, 1509. május 20.) itáliai arisztokrata nő, Galeazzo Maria Sforza milánói herceg házasságon kívüli leánya, Bianka Mária német-római császárné féltestvére, Bona Sforza lengyel királyné nagynénje, a Sforza-család tagja. Első házassága révén Forlì grófnéja.
Nov 24, 2015 · Caterina Sforza was a powerful force to be contended with in Renaissance Italy. She has been called a Renaissance virago (woman who fights like a man), a lioness, tigress, and a warrior woman. One of her more flamboyant acts of defiance was even made famous by Machiavelli. Driven and powerful, Caterina Sforza sometimes took her actions too far ...
Caterina Sforza Quotes Caterina Sforza was an Italian noblewoman, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola, firstly with her husband Girolamo Riario, and after his death as a regent of her son Ottaviano.Caterina was the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan and Lucrezia, the wife of the courtier Gian Piero Landriani, a ...
An exploration and analysis of the links between the Caterina images in the Sistine frescoes and female figures in the Botticelli mythologies. Nigel Goodman offers a new interpretation of these important paintings and provides a re-evaluation of Botticelli’s creative genius. This new interpretation is based on the discovery that the...