#Renaissance Italy

[isabelle-primrose]

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI by Frank Cadogan Cowper circa 1910

[jeannepompadour]

Bust of a young girl, workshop of Andrea della Robbia, 1465-70

[thetudorslovers]

Two or three of her ladies-in-waiting were pretty. One danced well and another, Lucrezia’s cousin Angela Borgia, was charming. Without her knowing, El Prete had picked her as his favorite. Angela’s charm would be the source of great tragedy in Ferrara; even then it must have been one of the reasons for the nightly visits Alfonso’s brothers made to Lucrezia’s palace.

She was the illegitimate daughter of Guillem Ramon de Borja and Sanoguera, son of Otic de Borja y Montcada and his wife Violant Sanoguera. Her mother was Isabel de Montcada. She was also a niece of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI .In her youth she lived in Rome alongside her cousin Lucretia Borgia, whom she accompanied to Ferrara when she married Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara 

Considered as a woman of great beauty, elegance, romantic, with an exquisitely feminine personality. She was absolutely trustworthy friend, confidant of the innermost secrets, favorite companion and assistant to her favorite cousin Lucretia. She won the praise of men of letters as Diomede Guidalotti who dedicated two sonnets to her, and even Ludovico Ariosto dedicated the last canto of Orlando Furioso to her. Pietro Bembo idealized her as an "angel that can pray for me." On 1 August 1504, in the dedication of his "Gli asolani" to the duchess Lucrezia Borgia refers back to his Angela, indicating that Lucrezia's cousin and maiden is "the dear and gallant Madonna Angela Borgia".

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

vibrating with Ficino thoughts

[sapplejack]

Some sketches of Giuliano de Medici. I really liked drawing his curly hair, it's the kind I'm used to lol. And yes, that cheetah cub is his pet. Considering the Medici kept exotic animals and (possibly) Giuliano is depicted with one in that Magi fresco, I thought why not? I think he would've been a (big) cat person. I wanna draw Lorenzo next.

[sc4llywag]

So I haven't posted anything of my self insert for Renaissance Italy a lot but I did these side profile portraits of me and a friend that is also inserted in the universe

Left is Pietro (no last name yet)

Right is Leo Romano (Me)

Not much lore to push out yet bc I still need to gather the events but here's a sneak peek:

Leo and Pietro are like bestie siblings and Pietro is an assassin before Leo is/even knows of the brotherhood until they meet each other. Pietro has a little bit of a secret leaking problem.

[marfa-g]

[oonaluna-art]

This had been sitting in my WIP files for almost a year now, so I decided to finish up this part of the composition. These are my OCs from the Daughters of the Sea story I am working on. 

[Left to Right]: Sophia, Ginika, Flora, Sabre,

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[n0isy-gh0st]

Oggi in figura, domani in sepoltura.

[jenniferdarjeeling]

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[pittoresko]

"Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Novice of San Secondo" by Jacometto Veneziano, Italian painter of the 15th century.

Jacometto Veneziano was an Italian early Renaissance painter and illuminator, active between 1472 and 1497.

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ITALIANO: "Ritratto di una novizia" (1490) di Jacometto Veneziano, pittore italiano del primo Rinascimento, attivo tra il 1472 e il 1497.

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[larsdatter]

Strong Women in Renaissance Italy is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through January 7.

An exhibit book is also available.

[thetudorslovers]

Isabella Cortesi or Cortese was an author of the first published treatise on cosmetics and an alchemist who claimed to have come by her knowledge in her travels through eastern Europe. I secreti della Signora Isabella Cortese, which first appeared in 1561 in Venice , was reprinted at least seven times up to 1677, introduced alchemy to a woder readership. Cortese was a shrewd marketer of her product—she insisted that readers keep her secrets secret, thereby ensuring a steady stream of new consumers.

In it were medical and cosmetic remedies, advice for how to run a household and discussion of how to turn metal into gold. It was a popular book, which went through several editions into the seventeenth century. She also stated to have learned more from traveling than from reading older texts about the subject.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

so much on Ficino & Plato & Sex

your daily Marsilio blogging continues, this time with the gentle reminder of the deep misogyny of most homoerotic anything in the medieval and early modern period (among other times as well).

At the same time, I appreciate Marsilio being like: Fuck this, we can do the Petrarchan model of Ideal Love too. Just watch me and Giovanni yearn for twenty years.

I do appreciate that in the whole of Ficino's writing he rarely, if ever, refers to sex between men as sinful. He uses terms of disgraceful, filthy, worthy of disgust, ugliness etc. but he uses those terms equally for heterosexual sex conducted for pleasure alone with no intention of making the babies. Corporality on the whole - in all its forms - is the problem. (And the contemporary medical hang-ups around the expulsion of semen aside.)

But it's still not sinful, it just makes it harder to climb the ladder of love to salvation. Some might think this a small thing (he still reads it as bad!) but there's a huge gulf of difference between a priest from 1478 saying X is disgraceful but never using the language of sin around it.

Granted, Ficino doesn't harp too much on sin in general. I would be very curious to go back in time, get him a little wine drunk, and ask him his actual, not-Church approved views.

Ficino loves trying to reconcile everything through Plato. Marsilio "What if We Applied Plato to This Situation??" Ficino.

The desire/beauty thing - you can just see his struggle in trying to make it all work and never quite succeeding. It's one of the many things he and Pico debated with great animation. Pico was anti-the physical desire part of Ficino's formula while Ficino believed salvation/finding Philosophic Truth (i.e., God) required it.

I do really love Ficino's broadly positive read on humanity. He always goes in with a: People Are Good approach to a situation.

I love this little caveats he gives in his writings. The bit: "Love, even when mixed with an inderior appetite [for sex], does not cease meanwhile to raise the soul as far as it is able."

Giovanni having a panic about the state of their souls as they lie about in the grass and Ficino thinking fast on how to assuage him. "Umm, look, this isn't ideal, and we really should try harder to resist. But ... uh... Love is Good. Right? Our Love is Good and holds no Evil, correct?'

Giovanni, 'Yes, that is correct.'

Ficino, 'Great, so because our Love is Good and our Souls naturally desire Truth and Love is always working to help raise our souls up to Truth - even when we uhhhhh slip up, shall we say--'

Giovanni, 'We purposefully went into a remote field to commit sodomy. This wasn't an accidental slip up, Marsilio. You even checked to make sure you had time enough after this to confess and seek absolution so you can say mass on Sunday.'

Ficino, 'Slipped up. Could have happened to anyone. Anyway, even when that happens Love is still raising our souls up as far as it is able. So what I'm saying is, don't worry about it.'

the knots this man will tie himself in to try and make it ok to accidentally, whoopsie daisy, sleep with men. That full quote from him on how homosexual consorting (sex, that is what he means quite literally) is part of spiritual procreation is really something else.

I also think the caveat he includes of "of course, naturally, when you're horny you should go to your wife to make sure you're doing sex Properly" is doing a lot of interesting work there.

"Giovanni and I loving each other is necessary for OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH OK??"

Technically, he's not wrong. In the sense that being able to openly and honestly love/be loved by who it is you desire - regardless their gender - is incredibly important to mental health which impacts physical health.

mess! mess! mess!

this is super interesting. That Ficino was attempting to figure out how to guide people through reciprocal love in a world where that wasn't normal to navigate.

All of Ficino's back and forth on sex, desire, beauty, love is just so telling of how much he wanted to resolve the issue and how knotted everything was for him (and he wasn't alone, obviously).

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ok I'm done inundating everyone for now.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Herodotus. Libri novem. Aldus, Venice, 1502. nineteenth-century calf gilt

Pictures from a copy of the editio princeps of Herodotus’ Histories (Greek text with Latin translation) by Aldus Manutius in 1502.

Source:https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/the-library-of-a-greek-bibliophile-travel-books-aldines-and-an-important-quran/herodotus-libri-novem-aldus-venice-1502-nineteenth

[nickysfacts]

Leonardo da Vinci, one of mankind’s greatest minds and gay icon!🏳️‍🌈

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