Klee’s Reviews > 10 Women Who Ruled the Renaissance > Status Update

Catalina de Erauso - one of the earliest written biographies, escaped a convent, dressed as man, broke boundaries

Abbakka Chowta - history is a memory, not just facts

Cow poo has antibacterial qualities

Gracia Mendes Nasi - commercial wealth and religion persecution, Tiberius

Ma Shouzhen - Ming dynasty courtesan, artist - painter and poet

Humanist education

Isabella - buyer of arts and people

Isabella d’Este

Grace O’Malley and Sayyida al-Hurra - piratey … these women were powerful but not necessarily “good people” but products of the time right

Elizabeth I - piratey and virginy