ABSTRACT
The goal of this book is to introduce into the literature of Renaissance Art and History a group of fifteenth-century women and the works of art with which they lived. The women in question were Dominican nuns who spent their lives in an enclosed convent in the quiet Tuscan city of Pisa. As with the city itself, the convent was both controlled and overshadowed by Florentine interests and personalities through much of the fifteenth century. Nonetheless the nuns we encounter in this book built institutions and structures, commissioned works of art, acquired manuscripts and other books, and used works of art to communicate with each other and with the world.
