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Women in the Renaissance Lab

(1) Lesson Plan

(2) Women in the Renaissance Essay Blank Outline

(3) Document 1 Francisco Barbaro, On Wifely Duties, The Earthly Republic ed. Benjamin Kohl and

(4) Document 2 Ronald G. Witt, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978)

(5) Document 3

Francisco Barbaro lived from 1390 to 1454. He was a Venetian nobleman and humanist. He wrote On Wifely Duties as a wedding gift for Lorenzo de' Medici and his wife.

(6) Document 4 Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, The Civilization of the

(7) Document 5 Italian Renaissance, ed. Kenneth Bartlett, (Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and

(8) Document 6 Company,1992)

Alberti was a papal secretary as well as an accomplished painter, architect, athlete, musician, orator, mathematician and author. He is often cited as an ideal Renaissance man. He wrote The Family in Renaissance Florence in the 1430's.

(9) Document 7 Thomas More, Utopia. trans. by Paul Turner, (London, England: Penguin Books,

(10) Document 8 1965)

Thomas More was a leading humanist and privy councillor to Henry VIII of England. He was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to renounce his loyalty to the Pope and uphold Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Utopia, written in 1516, is Thomas More's idea of a perfect civilization.

(11) Document 9 Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. trans. Lydia Cochrane, (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985)

(12) Document 10 William Shakespeare, Othello. ed. T.J.B. Spencer and Stanley Wells,

(13) Document 11 (London: Penguin Books, 1996)

Shakespeare wrote Othello between 1602 and 1604. In this story Othello kills his wife Desdemona after his aid Iago lies and makes him believe Desdemona had an affair.

(14) Document 12 Jacques Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman. trans. by Richard Hyrde, 1555

Vives wrote this for Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII of England) as a guide for the education of noble Christian women.

(15) Document 13 Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans by John Florio, 1603

Montaigne was born a to a minor noble French family in 1533. He served in many important political positions before his death 1592.

(16) Document 14 Laura Cereta, Laura Cereta to Bibulus Sempronius: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women, Her Immaculate Hand ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. (Asheville, North Caroline: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina,1997)

Laura Cereta was educated in humanist curriculum by her father, an Italian aristocrat. Laura Cereta wrote this letter between 1485-1488 when she was 16 to 18 years old as a response to men who criticized her education or suggested her father had written her letters.

(17) Document 15 Ludovico Foscarini to Isotta Nogarola, Her Immaculate Hand ed. Margaret L. King and

(18) Document 16 Albert Rabil Jr. (Asheville, North Caroline: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina, 1997)

Isotta Nogorola was one of the most learned female humanists. Because of her education and eloquence her chastity was attacked and she was forced to live in seclusion in Verona. She wrote to Ludovico Foscarini a Venetian nobleman and humanist between 1451-53. In this letter they debate whether Adam or Eve was more sinful.

(19) Document 17 Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo), The Worth of Women. ed. and trans. by Virginia Cox (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Moderata Fonte was an upper class Venetian woman. She wrote The Worth of Women in 1592.

(20) Document 18 Marguerite De Navarre, The Heptameron. trans. by P. A. Chilton, (London: Penguin Books, 1984)

Marguerite De Navarre was sister of Francois I, King of France, and a patron of humanists and reformers. It is believed she compiled and wrote some of the stories of the Heptameron. It is believed that Story Four is based on Marguerite's own experience. The Heptameron was first published in 1558.

(1)		Lesson Plan
(2)		Women in the Renaissance Essay Blank Outline
(3)	Document 1	Francisco Barbaro, On Wifely Duties, The Earthly Republic ed. Benjamin Kohl and
(4)	Document 2	Ronald G. Witt, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978)
(5)	Document 3
		Francisco Barbaro lived from 1390 to 1454. He was a Venetian nobleman and humanist. He wrote On Wifely Duties as a wedding gift for Lorenzo de' Medici and his wife.
(6)	Document 4	Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, The Civilization of the
(7)	Document 5	Italian Renaissance, ed. Kenneth Bartlett, (Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and
(8)	Document 6	Company,1992)
		Alberti was a papal secretary as well as an accomplished painter, architect, athlete, musician, orator, mathematician and author. He is often cited as an ideal Renaissance man. He wrote The Family in Renaissance Florence in the 1430's.
(9)	Document 7	Thomas More, Utopia. trans. by Paul Turner, (London, England: Penguin Books,
(10)	Document 8	1965)
		Thomas More was a leading humanist and privy councillor to Henry VIII of England. He was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to renounce his loyalty to the Pope and uphold Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Utopia, written in 1516, is Thomas More's idea of a perfect civilization.
(11)	Document 9	Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. trans. Lydia Cochrane, (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
(12)	Document 10	William Shakespeare, Othello. ed. T.J.B. Spencer and Stanley Wells,
(13)	Document 11	(London: Penguin Books, 1996)
		Shakespeare wrote Othello between 1602 and 1604. In this story Othello kills his wife Desdemona after his aid Iago lies and makes him believe Desdemona had an affair.
(14)	Document 12	Jacques Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman. trans. by Richard Hyrde, 1555
		Vives wrote this for Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII of England) as a guide for the education of noble Christian women.
(15)	Document 13	Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans by John Florio, 1603
		Montaigne was born a to a minor noble French family in 1533. He served in many important political positions before his death 1592.
(16)	Document 14	Laura Cereta, Laura Cereta to Bibulus Sempronius: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women, Her Immaculate Hand ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. (Asheville, North Caroline: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina,1997)
		Laura Cereta was educated in humanist curriculum by her father, an Italian aristocrat. Laura Cereta wrote this letter between 1485-1488 when she was 16 to 18 years old as a response to men who criticized her education or suggested her father had written her letters.
(17)	Document 15	Ludovico Foscarini to Isotta Nogarola, Her Immaculate Hand ed. Margaret L. King and
(18)	Document 16	Albert Rabil Jr. (Asheville, North Caroline: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina, 1997)
		Isotta Nogorola was one of the most learned female humanists. Because of her education and eloquence her chastity was attacked and she was forced to live in seclusion in Verona. She wrote to Ludovico Foscarini a Venetian nobleman and humanist between 1451-53. In this letter they debate whether Adam or Eve was more sinful.
(19)	Document 17	Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo), The Worth of Women. ed. and trans. by Virginia Cox (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
		Moderata Fonte was an upper class Venetian woman. She wrote The Worth of Women in 1592.
(20)	Document 18	Marguerite De Navarre, The Heptameron. trans. by P. A. Chilton, (London: Penguin Books, 1984)
		Marguerite De Navarre was sister of Francois I, King of France, and a patron of humanists and reformers. It is believed she compiled and wrote some of the stories of the Heptameron. It is believed that Story Four is based on Marguerite's own experience. The Heptameron was first published in 1558.