"How to Be a Renaissance Woman" is not really a how-to book (but you guessed!).No, Jill Burke's sprightly cultural history, subtitled "The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity," is a window on the lot of women in early modern Europe. Also, a gentle reminder that, as complicated as things
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In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era and just how they were achieved. (Recipes included.)