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"She made an impact without being sexually attractive": why this Renaissance fashionista is my history hero

Isabella d'Este ran a Renaissance court through war, debt and shifting alliances, and still built one of the era's great art collections. Novelist and critic Sarah Dunant makes the case for why this ruler and collector deserves to be remembered as a history hero.

— via HistoryExtra (BBC), York Membery


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