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2 unusual facts about Angela Bianchini


Angela Bianchini

She translated Medieval French Novels (Romanzi medievali d'amore e d'avventura, Grandi Libri Garzanti, now reprinted and in CD-ROM), and edited a Renaissance correspondence (Lettere della fiorentina Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Garzanti 1989).

The author compares Alessandra's life with that of Lucrezia Tornabuoni, mother of Lorenzo il Magnifico and wife of Cosimo de' Medici lord of Florence, who wrote poetry and was at the centre of the city's artistic and intellectual life.



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