Women of the Renaissance – Fede Galizia & Veronica Franco

In our very first episode of RenFare, we’re diving into the lives of two bold and brilliant women who carved out space for themselves in the male-dominated world of Renaissance Italy.

Fede Galizia was a pioneering painter who mastered still life and religious portraiture with a quiet confidence — making fruit and feminine precision impossible to ignore.

Veronica Franco was a Venetian poet, courtesan, and intellectual who used her voice — and her pen — to challenge society’s expectations of women, love, and power.

Join us as we unpack how these two women pushed back against their cultural constraints, made lasting contributions to art and literature, and still resonate centuries later.

It’s history with heart, feminism with flair — and the renaissance, reimagined.

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Fede Galizia

• https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/fede-galizia/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fede_Galizia

• https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/fede-galizia-life-and-work/

• https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/dutch-still-life-6-famous-painters/

Veronica Franco Sources:

• https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0017.html

• https://awomensthing.org/blog/veronica-franco

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Franco

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  • https://dornsife.usc.edu/veronica-franco/portraits-of-franco/
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