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From the shop of Benveuto Cellini, 16th century Italian artist, there is shown the world-famous "Mermaid" pendant in gold, with baroque pearls, rubies, and enamel, made by Cellini for the Medici family and now in the possession of Lord Duveen...
CATHERINE DE' MEDICI-Ralph Roeder -Viking...
...career of Catherine de' Medici, one of the biggest career women of the Reformation, was a long time starting, came as near as nothing to never starting...
Orphaned within a month of her birth (1519), she was such a sickly infant that her Great-Uncle Giovanni (Pope Leo X) was doubly disgusted with her. What was needed at that point in the Medici fortunes was a healthy boy. Having at last attained the Papacy, the Medici clan were in imminent danger of petering out. But useless as she might be in her own small person, Uncle Giovanni planned to use her as a political pawn, schemed how to marry her to best Medici advantage...
...Paris for Jacques Copeau, returned to the U. S. to act in Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published a graphic, scholarly presentation of four Renaissance figures (The Man of the Renaissance, TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Longer (629 pp.), less brilliant, Catherine de' Medici is also more ambitious, seeks to unravel the mazy meshes of one of the most tangled periods in European history...