1. Moderata Fonte, Il merito delle donne, E-text, Liberliber, p. 61; https://www.liberliber.it/mediateca/libri/m/moderata_fonte/il_merito_delle_donne/pdf/il_mer_p.pdf
2. Baldassare Castiglione, Il libro del Cortegiano, Einaudi, Torino, 1965, p. 1
3. Phyllis Stock, Better Than Rubies—A History of Women’s Education, Putnam, New York, 1978, pp. 32–36
4. J. Gibson, “The Logic of Chastity: Women, Sex, and the History of Philosophy in the Early Modern Period”, Hypatia, 21 (2006) 1–19
5. The condottieri led armies of mercenaries in the service of monarchs and popes.