3. Isabella d'Este was born in
1474 into the ruling family
of Ferra.
At the age of sixteen
Isabella married Francesco
Gonzaga.
She then became the
Marchioness of Mantua
because Francesco was the
Prince.

5. Catherine de Medici was
born in Florence, Italy,
1519.
She had a very troubled
childhood.
 At only the young age of
one, both of Catherine's
parents died from a
disease.

6.  The nuns where she lived, trained and
disciplined her and as she grew older
she became very well-educated.
Catherine filled her library with
numerous rare manuscripts. In 1533 her
uncle, the Pope, arranged her marriage.
For the first ten years of her marriage,
Catherine was unable to produce
children but finally she was able to. At
the age of ten, one of her children
became the King of France so she
became the King's Regent, which
enabled her to be Queen Regent. In
January of the year,1589, Catherine died
at the age of seventy.

8. It is the story of the most
famous royal love triangle
in the history of France and
is full of romance and
rivalry.
If Diane de Poitiers had
lived in the twenty-first
century.

9. Catherine de Medici

10.  Catherine de Medici was born Caterina
Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medicion
April13, 1519, in Florence, cradle of
the European Renaissance
 Catherine was the daughter of Lorenzo Il de
Medici, the Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine
de la Tour d’Auvergne, a French Bourbon
Princess. Catherine was orphaned by both
parents before she was a month old.
 There were no close relatives whom to care
for the infant. In the end, her fathers distant
relative, Cardinal Guilio de' Medici (the
future pope Clement VII), became her
guardian, as well the head of the
government of Florence.

11. Marie de Guise

12.  Born November 20, 1515, the eldest
daughter of the powerful Duke of Guise
and Antoinette of Bourbon, Marie grew up
in the idyllic French countryside in the
family home of Joinville.
 Marie’s parents were a love match,
unusual for noble families of that time.
Her father was a military hero who made
it his mission to stamp Protestantism out
of France.
 Marie’s mother took an active interest in
her husband’s affairs, which did not go
unnoticed by her daughter. Marie received
an excellent education at the Convent of
the Poor Clares in Pont-a-Mousson,
overseen by her own grandmother, who
became a nun at the age of 58.

14.  From birth, Margaret of Austria
(Brussels 1480- Mechelen 1530) was
used by her father, Maximilian of
Austria, as a valuable pawn in the
European political game.
 She was the daughter of Maximilian
of Austria and his wife Mary of
Burgundy. In view of her Habsburg
and Burgundian heritage, she was
highly eligible.
 When Margaret was barely two
years old, her father betrothed her to
the Dauphin, later Charles VIII.

15. Elisabetta Sirani

16.  Sirani was a multi-talented
individual, born in Bologna and an
accomplished painter, poet, musician
and daughter of painter Giovanni
Andrea Sirani.
 Her subjects were traditionally large
scale religious or historical
paintings.
 She sadly died prematurely at the
age of 27 but with her rapid style of
painting, she still managed to
produce over 200 works of art.

17. Artemisia Gentileschi

18.  The daughter of painter Orazio
Gentileschi, she was born in Rome
and studied under him. She was later
tutored by the painter Tassi, who in a
well documented trial of the time
was accused of rapping her. Moved
to Florence where she became the
Medici family patronised her and she
was close friends with Galileo and
Michelangelo's nephew. She was
also the first woman to become a
member of the Accademia delle Arte.

19.  Renaissance Women Who Ruled
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20. Neisly O. Fajardo
BSED 2-F (SS)