CHAPTER I

POLITICAL INFLUENCE

Women remain strangers to the keener activities: war, justice—Women, political in spite of themselves—Isabella of Aragon—Jeanne of Aragon—Anne of France—Return from ambition to love—Restless women—Renée of France—Purely defensive heroism of women—Ladies of Sienna and Pisa—Isabella the Catholic—Catherine Sforza—Woman according to Michelangelo. Pages 311-324