Certaldo Essays

In the nineteenth century the roles of women were very different than they are today. Women had few rights and their only purpose was to maintain the household while men worked all day. Men of this generation made family decisions and their wife’s personal decisions. We have seen textual evidence of the life of women in the nineteenth century, thanks to Charlotte Gilman and Susan Glaspell. Only a century later have women received more equality and less responsibility. After “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Unfortunately Giovanni Boccaccio’s final years were troubled by illnesses, some relating to obesity and what often is described as dropsy, severe edema that would be described today as congestive heart failure. He died at the age of sixty-two in Certaldo on December 21, in 1375, where he was

“Every artist was first an amateur,” -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Benozzo Gozzoli was a famous Italian Renaissance painter. His real name is Benozzo di Lese. Benozzo Gozzoli was born in 1421 in Florence, Italy. He is best known for his murals painted in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi. Gozzoli was initially trained to be a goldsmith. Most Renaissance painters were first trained as goldsmiths. He then started working with other famous artists in painting. Gozzoli is very important to the Renaissance time period