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all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone · 4 months

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She's a Maneater {Medici} Pt1?

Contessina de Bardi

Bianca de Medici

Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Clarice Orsini

#they're maneaters #medici #medici women #all these women slayed #clarice orsini #more than wife {clarice}#lucrezia de medici #Lucrezia Tornabuoni #contessina de bardi #mother of florence {contessina}#bianca de medici #women of the medici #i medici #medici the beauty and the power #medici the art of power #medici the magnificent #medici family #Spotify

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 1 year

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Santi di Tito (Italian, 1536-1603) Portrait of the Young Maria de' Medici, c.1590s Opificio delle pietre dure

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thetudorslovers · 7 months

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"The mother of Pope Clement VII remains an enigmatic figure. Pieraccini cites a record of the Pazzi conspriacy by Antonio da San Gallo in which he wrote that Giuliano had a son, aged one, by the time he was killed in the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478. The mother was ' a woman of the Gorini, his friend. The said Lorenzo went to see him and then gave him to the care of the same Antonio, where he stayed until his seventh year. The said son had the name of Giulio and was born on the 6th March 1478. Seraccini is cited as stating that she was Fioretta di Antonio di Michele di Iacopo del Ciptadino corazzaio. Pieraccini however states that the mother's name was certainly 'Fioretta', but that all else is unknown.

An unpleasant paragraph then follows outlining the importance of knowing who the mother was, owing: ' on the laws of hereditary biology, the knowledge of whether Fioretta was daughter of nobles or plebs must be important, for example, to recognise the inheritance of particular refined talents or dispositions, presumably more developed in the Florentine upper classes than in the lower ones.' Giulio had himself declared legitimate during Giovanni's cardinalate, saying that his mother had been secretly married to Giuliano. The eighteenth-century Jesuit antiquarian, Giuseppe Richa, in an attempt to ensure the Medici pope's legitimacy to the throne of S. Peter, repeated this claim of a secret marriage. Hibbert follows the Gorini reference, and identifies her as Fioretta Gorini. 'This boy, whose mother soon afterwards died, was adopted by Lorenzo'. Young identifies her as Antonia Gorini." - Women on the margins: the beloved and the mistress in Renaissance Florence

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fideidefenswhore · 8 months

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She continued, 'After all, there was another cause which would convince your queen and Catherine to pursue a good amity. There was an old acquaintance between your queen's mother and the queen regent, when the former was one of the maids-of-honour of Queen Claude, sister of Renee of France, my own mother-in-law and dear friend to Catherine de Medici herself. They were friendly towards another. There is no reason for Elizabeth and Catherine not to continue that friendship.' The mention of Anne Boleyn stunned the English ambassador; it had never crossed his mind that the reputation of Elizabeth's mother in France could be used as a diplomatic tool to reinforce Anglo-French relations.

Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici, Estelle Paranque

#lots of compelling insights from this book #like that the french court suppressed a book which 'slandered' anne boleyn in 1562 #had it been published in the midst of the timeline of marian england #it would not have been considered slander; one imagines.....#estelle paranque #elizabethan #anne boleyn #renee of france #catherine de medici #anyway posting this also bcus some of the HTF reviews have been. annoying #'aha isn't it funny anne had no friends that were women. isn't that telling. aha'#nicholas throckmorton

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tercessketchfield · 1 year

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LIV HILL as young CATHERINE de' MEDICI | the Serpent Queen

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makedvioletplayable · 2 months

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Happy international women's day from the characters of skullgirls. Pt 1

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isadomna · 2 years

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“Pitting her rivals against each other, she had emerged seemingly above the fray. She had become an operator. It was a triumph of her personal diplomacy.” Sarah Gristwood in Game of Queens:The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

“She is a selfless, tireless negotiator for peace. … She is utterly dedicated to ensuring that her children’s rule is successful.” Una McIlvenna author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici

“There’s this show calling her the ‘serpent queen.’ That really says it all. A snake is someone that will stab you in the back, that will always be in the shadows trying to get you. And that could not be further from the truth when it comes to Catherine.” Estelle Paranque author of Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici.

#Catherine of Medici #Samantha Norton #the serpent queen #Women in history

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littlweirdostuffwritesworld · 1 year

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The golden sun

Summary: Many things have happened to the marriage of Francesco de Pazzi and Andrea Sabini, the speech of Jacopo de Pazzi and the appearance of the most talked about woman in Florence, Tamara D'Amato cousin of the bride.

"I can't believe Francesco de Pazzi is getting married," Giuliano said

"So it's true that a good woman can change you," Botticelli joked

"Apparently" Lorenzo took a sip of the wine looking at the new couple, you could see that they were in love.

"Our poor Lorenzo is jealous," Giuliano said

"What? Jealous of Francesco? Never, I'm just happy that he's no longer influenced by Jacopo Pazzi"

"Of course, it's not the fact that you feel a little lonely"

"Not at all, if I want to marry someone I can choose any lady" he laughed

"Sure, what about the woman mother introduced you?"

"Clarice Orsini, Carlo was unable to pessuader her and she became a nun" her brother looked at him for a moment and it seemed that he was about to explode with laughter.

"Don't try to laugh, and let's talk about you instead"

"There is nothing to talk about, because you are doing the same thing" Lorenzo was about to reply when their sister arrived.

"Bianca where were you?"

"With the bride's cousin Lucia D'Amato" she explained and pointed at the young woman

"Do you think the d'Adamato will show up?" Botticelli asked

"If they show up this will be the most remembered wedding in Florence" Giuliano commented, across the hall The Pazzi brothers were talking.

"Congratulations brother" Gugliemo Pazzi was really proud of his brother, even if he did not want to say it, he did not expect Francesco to fall in love, and he had gotten into oace with the obsession of the Medici

"Thank you but if it wasn't for you I don't think I'd be here to toast"

"You did the same thing with me and Bianca, you are my brother this is the least" it seemed that the Pazzi family was going through a period of rebirth and prosperity.

While everyone was celebrating Jacopo Pazzi entered it seemed that he had drunk too much he was drunk.

"Congratulations to my nephew Francesco" he applauded

"How come you are all silent, I thought this was a wedding" he sobbed

"And it is, Messer Pazzi you can stay as long as you want" Andrea said approaching the man

"No more titles we are family now" he smiled, a trail of chills rose on the back of the groom.

"Do you think he has something in mind?" Guglielmo whispered

"I'm going to see" he no longer needed to muster up the courage to talk to his uncle.

"Uncle I'm glad you came"

"I would never miss my brother's son's wedding"

and the man goes away and approached other nobles.

"My love are you okay?" he said

" Yes why?"

"Jacopo Pazzi is never happy for anyone, and now that his most precious pawn is dispossessed he is afraid that I will be against him"

"Honey don't worry, the only thing I can tell you is to follow your mind and your heart, and if you don't know what to do, talk to your brother and your wife" she advised.

"Yes" the major domus interrupted the couple

"Madonna Pazzi, Tamara D'Amato has arrived" he announced

"Well thank you, honey you will meet my best friend"

"I can't believe it, Tamara D'Amato is not ashamed, she shows up here after having canceled her engagement" a noble woman said

"And with that scar on her face who will marry her?" they snickered

"I advise you to ceaseyour gossiping, Tamara D'Amato is still part of the D'Amato family if she wants your heads, she will have them, if you insult Tamara, you insult Venice and Florence" Lucrezia Donati said, and two women stopped talking

The most talked about woman in Florence entered the room and brought a stir and shock with her.

"Congratulations cousin, may you have a prosperous life together," she smiled

"Oh Tamara, your presence here is the best gift" Andrea hugged her

"I would never miss my cousin and best friend's wedding"

"So the rumors are true, she is really a beautiful woman" Bianca said, without taking her eyes off the woman, she had seen noble women but there was something about Tamara, maybe it was her red dress or the long braid that gathered her hair almost to the floor.

"It's not just a beautiful face, his father Leonardo D'Amato has always believed he was raising his children despite being a son or daughter, the woman excels in economics, Latin, Greek, Italian and helps her father" their mother Lucrezia said

"She seems to be a great woman" Giuliano commented

"A woman worthy of being a wife" the mother winked and left

"Mother will never change"

"If it weren't for that scar she could be the most beautiful woman in Florence …" Botticelli said

"A beautiful woman is always a beautiful woman" Lorenzo interrupted

"Are my eyes deceiving or Lorenzo is quite interested in Tamara D'Amato?" the painter teased

"No, but the D'Amato family is a powerful and rich family, our father and Leonardo were about to make an agreement for the sale of silk" he explained, he continued to look at her and it was clear that even with the "scandals" she was charismatic woman.

The woman was approaching the group, the closer she gets, the more Lorenzo looked at her, he had noticed that she had a mole near her left eye.

"Good evening family de Medici and Signor Botticelli" she greeted

"Lady D'Amato is a pleasure to meet you this evening" Bianca greeted shyly, respected the woman

"I'm sorry for your father's death, he was a good man, may he rest in peace"

"I knew that our fathers were friends, my father is getting old unfortunately things have left certain things pending"

"We, their children can continue what they were doing"

"Interesting, I hope we could" before leaving the music began

"Dama would you like to dance with me?" he offered himself and gives her a little grin and accepted her hand. The music started and everybody was ready to dance

"Messer Lorenzo"

" Yes?"

"If you wanted to talk about business, it was enough to talk to my brother Benedetto, there was no need to invite me to dance"

"I didn't invite you for business, I'm just a man who can't resist a beautiful woman" Tamara laughed

" Is this how the famous Lorenzo de Medici steals the hearts of the ladies of Florence?" she smiled

" Steal? No my lady a thief steal, I'm a keeper, the heart of the lady I will love is more precious than diamonds and gold" he whispered on her ear.

" So you are poet too?"

" I'm a man who loves the art, I heard your family supports many artists" he said

" Yes my family support artists, from painters,writers, poets and musicians. House D'Amato is not only selling tessile but we make clothes out of them" she explained, and with the last twirl the dance ended, but their hands was still intertwined.

" I would like to see you" he blurted out

" I mean I would like to see more of your family products" he corrected himself blushing

" Of course our shops are always open" she smiled, bowed and walked away. Leaving the young Lord following her with his blue eyes.

#lorenzo de medici x reader #the medici #x black reader #black oc #black tumblr #black girl magic #black girl joy #black women #1500s #medieval #francesco pazzi #giuliano de medici #t

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1533-secrets-from-history · 1 year

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Hello dear ladies and gentlemen, I am new on Tumblr and I have quite a prolonged desire to create historical content, where I can share information, personal theories and attitudes toward specific historical characters and events or analysis of period daramas about them, how accurately they are portrayed,how close is costume design to fashion of their respective timeline, etc. I have particularl interest towards female figures in history therefore one of my preferred thematics are:

1. The wars of roses

2. English reformation

3. French wars of religion

4. Sultanate of women

I was kind of History nerd since childhood and gathered some information about this time periods and all those fascinating participants ( especially women),explore controversial events and form my own perspective of it,but I really ever had opportunity to share it with someone, so I have decided to write posts on Tumblr. Here is where I need your help, I am kind of weak in names. I really want my content to become readable and popular, where people would be able to express their own opinions, ask questions and simply enjoy reading it and first step to gather such audience is creating name,which is again my weak spot. So can you help my find some interesting and eye catching name for my blogs?

P.S I will just leave list of my favourite historical figures here😅:

#sultanate of women #ottoman history #history #hurrem sultan #nurbanu sultan #kosem sultan #anne boleyn #turhan sultan #eleanor of aquitaine #margaret beaufort #elizabeth tudor #histiryedit #catherine de medici #French wars of religion #english reformation #the wars of the roses #Cecily neville

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ichabodjane · 1 year

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TFW watching Medici and seeing Charlie Vickers pop up in the background

#medici the magnificent #charlie vickers #but also #daniel sharman #bradley james #leo fron s1 of The Great #so many of my faves #and nice costumes #the womens hair could be better tho #costume drama #Guglielmo de' Pazzi #had to copy paste that no way I could spell it

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aaandbackstabbed · 5 days

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If there aren’t edits of her to psycho by Ava max readily available then how can she really be my favourite character.

#that’s like the main trend between my favourite characters #and if there isn’t then definitely should be #some people are just cowards #make women insane again !!#they should be crazy beyond recognition #insane ladies are my ladies #This says nothing abt my mental state #goldie o'gilt #regina mills #the evil queen #Catherine de Medici #etc etc etc

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 1 year

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Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) Discesa di Cristo al limbo, Detail, 1552 Cappella Medici, Basilica di Santa Croce Firenze

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thetudorslovers · 10 months

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"Lorenzo’s adolescent years certainly seem to have about them a fairy-tale quality; the intimate correspondence of his brigata is full of allusions to music, dancing, storytelling, and lovemaking. There is the pathos of his doomed love for Lucrezia Donati, to whom many of his juvenile poems are addressed, a young married gentlewoman so compelling that Sigismondo della Stufa wrote to an absent Lorenzo in March 1466 describing how she looked as she left church: “You never saw anything so beautiful, dressed in black and with her head veiled, stepping so gracefully that it was as if the very stones and walls should worship her as she passed. I will say no more, lest you be tempted by sin in this holy season.”

According to Vasari, Andrea himself restored ancient sculpture for the Medici, as Bertoldo and others were to do in the next decade. It would surely have been Lorenzo himself, hardly his father, who commissioned from Verrocchio, as early as the late 1460s, a painted por- trait of the younger Medici’s beloved Lucrezia Donati, which cannot now be identified. Surely this “wooden frame within which is the head of Lucrezia Donati,” mentioned in the well-known list of works done for the Medici for which the artist was not paid, was the same “small painting [tavoletta] in which a woman was depicted” at the foot of which Lorenzo composed one of his early love sonnets addressed to Lucrezia, a self-conscious reference by the young poet to Petrarch’s poems about Simone Martini’s portrait of Laura. It is poignant indeed now to dis- cover that in October 1495 Lucrezia’s son, Niccolò Ardinghelli, bought from the Medici estate for twenty-three large gold florins “a figure or image or painting of his mother,” almost unbearably poignant to think that Lucrezia Donati, who was to live another six years, may have wanted for herself this image commissioned by her Medici lover of thirty years earlier." - F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence.

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fideidefenswhore · 6 months

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also, like, saying AB did prevent fitzroy from marrying a princess (which seems...unlikely, given he was a bastard duke); there's nothing to suggest his relationship with his wife was bad? if there were this might give them more of a reason for a contentious relationship but there's nothing to that effect.

#there were talks for him to wed catherine de medici which they mention but idr who else. idt any women that were higher ranking. certainly #also it seems to have been his father that didn't want him to live with mary fitzroy #so like maybe this was at anne's encouragement or maybe he believed that and resented her for that but.......#idk. it is all conjecture . is my point #tl; dr if they had a terrible relationship then yes he might have hated anne since she arranged it #but there's nothign to that effect! again

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sixminutestoriesblog · 4 months

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Catherine de Medici - the Black Queen of France

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#catherine de medici #france #history #women in history #bartholomew's day massacre #youtube #I've always found her incredibly fascinating #the black queen #Youtube

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erisscribbles · 2 months

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Calling all Tumble history buffs, feminists, and feminist history buffs. It's the beginning of Women's History Month, and I wish to ask the mentioned groups a question that has always intrigued me, but I don't have the proper knowledge or information to answer.

#women in history #women #just asking #history #famous #tumblr polls #ladies and gentlemen #popular #historical figures #power #history tumblr #feminists tumblr #feminist history tumblr #reign #catherine de medici #the great #english literature

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