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Updated: June 14, 2025
C. Magenta, I Visconti e Sforza nel Castello di Pavia, i. Beatrice Duchess of Bari Her popularity at the court of Milan Giangaleazzo and Isabella of Aragon Lodovico's first impressions His growing affection for his wife His letters to Isabella d'Este Hunting and fishing parties Cuzzago and Vigevano Controversy on Orlando and Rinaldo Bellincioni's sonnets.
Her miserable husband, Giangaleazzo, showed less inclination than ever to take his proper place at the head of affairs, and abandoned himself to low debauchery. In his drunken fits it was even said that he forgot himself so far as to strike his wife.
Six years later she saw her brother Giangaleazzo die of poison administered by Ludovico il Moro, while before her very eyes her second, but not openly recognized, husband, Giacomo Feo of Savona, was slain in Forli by conspirators.
The French king's doctor, Theodore Guainiero of Pavia, was quite sure he had detected signs of poisoning in the sick duke's face when he had been present at the interview between his royal master and poor Giangaleazzo at Pavia.
The first great bacchanalian outbreak of military ambition took place in the duchy of Milan after the death of Giangaleazzo . The policy of his two sons was chiefly aimed at the destruction of the new despotisms founded by the Condottieri; and from the greatest of them, Facino Cane, the house of Visconti inherited, together with his widow, a long list of cities, and 400,000 golden florins, not to speak of the soldiers of her first husband whom Beatrice di Tenda brought with her.
Giangaleazzo was formally invested with the Duchy of Genoa, and did homage to the representative of his suzerain, the French king, in the presence of the whole court.
Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at Asti The Neapolitan fleet sent against Genoa The forces of Naples repulsed at Rapallo Charles VIII. at Asti Beatrice d'Este entertains him at Annona The king's illness His visit to Vigevano and Pavia His interview with the Duke and Duchess of Milan Last illness and death of Giangaleazzo Sforza Lodovico proclaimed Duke at Milan Mission of Maffeo Pirovano to Maximilian.
One of her children, Beatrice, had been married in December, 1490, to Ludovico il Moro, the brilliant monster who was Regent of Milan in place of his nephew Giangaleazzo; her other daughter, Isabella, one of the most beautiful and magnificent women of her day, was married in 1490, when she was only sixteen years of age, to the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua.
The despotism of the Dukes of Milan, whose government from the time of Giangaleazzo onwards was an absolute monarchy of the most thorough- going sort, shows the genuine Italian character of the fifteenth century. What a man of uncommon gifts and high position can be made by the passion of fear, is here shown with what may be called a mathematical completeness.
This deed, signed and sealed by Lodovico's own hand, and beautifully illuminated by Antonio da Monza, or some miniaturist of his school, is preserved, together with the former privileges granted to the community during the lifetime of Duke Giangaleazzo, in the collection of the Marchese d'Adda.
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