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21 " What followed seemed barely unbelievable, in the sense that Europe reeled from an assault that seemed impossible, heretical, demonic. "
― , The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
22 " Isabella had spent her whole life chasing the capricious goddess Fortuna: what we call Chance or Luck. She held the Humanist belief that the vicissitudes of Chance could be managed-if not entirely, then to a greater extent than if she succeeded them, the result would be Virtú. In some senses this encapsulated the meaning of the Renaissance. "
23 " Although still driven by curiosity and ambition, she did not realize quite how much she had herself become viewed as a curiosity of her time. Still less could she know how, much later, she would come to be seen as the paradigmatic woman of the High Renaissance. "
24 " Francois I had commanded that the French speak one tongue, and the Langue d’oil triumphed over the Langue d’oc. "
25 " The Italian Renaissance was as much an age of culture and learning as of violence and deceit. "