Ramie Targoff

Renaissance Woman by Ramie Targoff tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend— the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy. She also had close ties to Charles V,...

An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age Telegraph Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour i Paper A fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women Tina Brown, New York Times A New Yorker Book of the Year Discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard—and read—in the time of Shakespeare....