The text argues that elite women in the Italian city-states may have gained more freedom because
a. marriage to older men and subsequent widowhood made them economically self-sufficient.
b. so many of them made independent livings as artists.
c. women played a prominent role in the banking business.
d. their husbands were more enlightened.
e. of their lower class origins and the greater secularism of their society.
a
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