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ISABELLA D'ESTE - RENAISSANCE WOMAN
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Grade Level Grades 9-12
Resource Type Assessment, Lesson Plan
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  WHY WAS ISABELLA D’ESTE A NOTABLE RENAISSANCE WOMAN?

Objective:  To have students analyze, evaluate, source and annotate primary source excerpts toward skill building for the AP Euro Exam

Citations:

Video:  Isabella d’Este – Art Collection by Dr. Raichel Le Goff (4:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W216-GcHcJl

Primary Source Letters –

Letters to Leonardo da Vinci:

http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-8/essays/isabella-deste-collects/

Letter to Holy Roman Emperor, to Husband (Duke Francesco Gonzaga)/with Response (1509):

http://www.ww2.d155.org/clc/tdirectory/

Practice of Magnificence -- Women’s Work:  Making Dance In Europe Before 1800 (Pgs. 1-49)

http://www.shadowsgovernment.com

Standards

Art and architecture (e.g., da Vinci and Michelangelo)
Literature (e.g., Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare)
Shift in worldview—other- worldly to secular
Political science (e.g., Machiavelli)
Students will explore shifts in the Western European Medieval view of itself and the world as well as key Greco-Roman legacies that influenced Renaissance thinkers and artists.
Students will examine political ideas developed during the Renaissance, including those of Machiavelli.

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