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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics

In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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  • [Small fund-raising sticker for the Scuola Tornitori (Florence, Italy)].
  • The buildings for the Florence Exhibition, Florence, Italy: aerial view. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside, 1861, after B. Sly.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, Italy. Etching by B.S. Sgrilli after G. Zocchi.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, Italy. Etching by B.S. Sgrilli after G. Zocchi.
  • The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.
  • Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, Italy: the hospital and piazza. Coloured line engraving by N. Parr, 17--, after G. Zocchi.
  • The Campanile di Giotto, Florence, Italy: an astronomer. Photograph by Giacomo Brogi, ca. 1870, of a marble bas-relief by Orcagna, ca. 1359.
  • The Orcagna tabernacle, Orsanmichele church, Florence, Italy: the birth of the Virgin. Photograph by Giacomo Brogi (?) ca. 1870, of a marble bas-relief by Orcagna, ca. 1359.
  • Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa Accademia [i.e. Lorenzo Magalotti].
  • Aggiunta al bando di proibizione, e sospensione do commercio de' 20. Giugno 1743 ... dato in Firenze, dall Uffizio di Sanità di Firenze li 2. Luglio 1743 / Urbano Pierattini, Cancelliere.
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