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‘Una persona dependente alla Serenissima Gran Duchessa’ : Female Embroiderers and Lacemakers between the courts of Florence and France

Adelina Modesti reconstructs the experiences of Caterina Angiola Pieroncini
 and ‘La Trottolina’, two embroiderers and lacemakers in the 1660s. Both were
 ladies-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere, an important patron
 of women artists and artisans at the Medici Court. The Grand Duchess provided
 training and education to both women, sending them to Paris to perfect their
 needlework skills in the new French styles. Having gained proficiency in France,
 both women were repatriated to Florence, where they continued in service to
 the Grand Duchess, alongside other ladies who had been trained in lacemaking
 at local convents. All these women were dependent on the protection of their
 patron, who did not fail to provide morally and materially for her young charges.