Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Thorne Miniature Rooms and illustrations across a restless

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Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Thorne Miniature Rooms and illustrations across a restlessThis compelling account of a wronged woman in Renaissance Florence, first published in 1986, is a fascinating view of Florentine society and its attitudes on love, marriage, class, and gender. Lusanna was a beautiful woman from a middle class background who, in 1455, brought suit against Giovanni, her aristocratic lover, when she learned he had contracted to marry a woman of his own class. Blending scholarship with insightful narrative, the book