Caroline P. Murphy is a cultural historian and biographer. She is the author of
Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century
Bologna
, praised by Sarah Bradford in the
Literary Review for 'shed[ding] new light on the ground-breaking career of a brave and talented woman.' Her second book,
The Pope's Daughter, was described as a "remarkable biography" by the
Daily Telegraph.
Her most recent book is
Isabella de'Medici. She grew up in Reading, studied art history at University College London, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin....
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