A mattress maker's daughter: the Renaissance romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza

In Explaining An Improbable Liaison And Its Consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter Explores Changing Concepts Of Love And Romance, New Standards Of Public And Private Conduct, And Emerging Attitudes Toward Property And Legitimacy Just As The Age Of Renaissance Humanism Gives Way To The Counter Reformation And Early Modern Europe.