A beauty recipe from Caterina Sforza: To make Talcho water – Eugenio Larosa The art of personal beautification captivated Caterina Sforza as much as the political intrigues in which she was deeply involved as the ruler of her territories. The…
Caterina Sforza’s Renaissance Recipe Collection
Caterina Sforza’s Renaissance Recipe Collection – Eugenio Larosa In the manuscript titled Experimenti, Caterina Sforza (1463–1509), the regent of Forlì and Imola in Romagna, compiled over four hundred recipes—or more precisely, prescriptions—for medicinal remedies, cosmetics, and alchemical procedures that she…
Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy
” Erano i capei d’oro a l’aura sparsi…” The Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy The image of golden hair, romanticised in the literature and art of 15th-century Italy, holds a particular fascination for historians of Renaissance culture. This was…