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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 896 — Chapter VI · THE POSITION OF WOMEN.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

Ant. Galateo, Epist. 3, to the young Bona Sforza, the future wife of Sigismund of Poland: ‘Incipe aliquid de viro sapere, quoniam ad imperandum viris nata es.... Ita fac, ut sapientibus viris placeas, ut te prudentes et graves viri admirentur, et vulgi et muliercularum studia et judicia despicias,’ &c. A remarkable letter in other respects also (Mai. Spicileg. Rom. viii. p. 532).

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