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Alessandro de Medici – “Il Moro” – from the History Archive

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Channeling Botticelli

Simonetta Cantaneo de Candia Vespucci- (1453 – 1476) The face of the Italian Renaissance . La bella Simonetta looking to the distant not at me at the London National Gallery Born in that stern Ligurian region up above the sea … Continue reading

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Alessandro de Medici – “Il Moro”

Do you like fairy tales? Have you heard the one about the black slave girl living in the great house of a noble lord as a helper to his great lady? Of how she slept with his younger 17 year … Continue reading

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Channeling Botticelli

  Simonetta Cattaneo de Candia Vespucci  (1453 – 26 April 1476) The face of the Italian Renaissance . La bella Simonetta looking to the distant not at me at the London National Gallery. . Born in that stern Ligurian region … Continue reading

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