#Caterina de Medici

[liviasdrusillas]

“Catherine de’ Medici changed the face of France, sculpting its gardens, constructing its châteaus, building its monuments. Clad perpetually in black, she became an emblematic figure of the realm, known across Europe simply as ‘the Queen Mother.’..For almost thirty years, she ruled France in all but name.

For the duration of her reign as Queen Mother, her enemies wanted to send her back to the fold of domesticity, her chief task to care for her children. But Catherine decided her place was next to the king, her son.” - young queens, leah redmond chang

[fashionbooksmilano]

Grandi Regine

Giuliana Pistoso

Illustrazioni di Ugo Fontana

Mondadori, Milano 1968, 155 pagine, 20x28cm

euro 15,00

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Galla Placidia - Adelaide di Borgogna - Margherita d'Austria - Isabella di Castiglia - Caterina de Medici - Elisabetta d'Inghilterra - Maria Teresa d'Austria - Caterina di Russia

Le protagoniste delle vicende narrate in questo volume - otto eccezionali figure di sovrane - abbracciano e dominano, anche per la loro longevità, un arco vastissimo di tempo: circa quattrocento anni di storia. Intelligenza, sensibilità, coraggio, intuito politico sono le doti che queste regine leggendarie, quasi un simbolo dei tempi in cui vissero, rivelarono nel corso del loro governo, meritando l'attributo di "grandi". In queste pagine, impreziosite da documenti e tavole di raffinata concezione, le grandiose figure delle otto regine riacquistano per il lettore di oggi contorni umani, pur sfumati fra toni di luce e d'ombra, fra verità e leggenda.

Grandi regine è un volume di biografie di sovrane dall'antichità fino all'età moderna (da Galla Placidia e Caterina di Russia): per illustrare il testo di Giuliana Pistoso, Ugo Fontana si è ispirato alla storia dell'arte, soprattutto del Rinascimento, rielaborandone in modo originale l'iconografia. 

24/07/23

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[hetagrammy]

I love finding historical portraits that look like characters. It's useful for referencing, but also fun for pretending that these portraits of nations are lurking around in museums and nobody is the wiser. I found this ages ago, but every time I see it I am thrown for a loop

Mr. Feliciano Vargas is that you??? Serving the 1490s specials?? For us?

[princessedevalois]

HOUSE OF VALOIS-ANGOULEME | Family Tree

(feat. @scotsq)

Notable connected families: Guise, Medici, Stuart Family motto: - Family symbols: Three golden fleurs-de-lis on a blue field

[marianomoreno]

i need to stop projecting fun dynamics into historical people but to be fair some of them are historically constructed and theres nothing i can do about it

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-2017/02-18

Maria e Caterina

"Devi sapere che l'ho informato del tuo piano di mandare i suoi uomini nel tuo Paese! Già sapeva ovviamente che intendevi tradirlo... e abbandonarlo!"

[roehenstart]

Catherine De Medici, Governor of Siena. After Justus Sustermans.

Caterina de’ Medici (1593–1629) was Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat as the second wife of Duke Ferdinando and Governor of Siena from 1627. She was the second daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany and his wife Christina of Lorraine.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1547-1556 French School - Caterina de' Medici

(Palatine Gallery)

[libero-de-mente]

Dear RAI, I tengo an idea.

A grand idea.

I credev, dopo la suspension of Noos and the success of Temptation Island, che we tutt'nnoi avessimo touch the found. Si il "found", il fondo pe' capisse.

Ma after avery visto la ceremony of the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris, agg' compreso che non c'é end al bad gusto.

Ora, torniamo alla mia great idea. (si legge "aidea" come "aigor")

Perché non metti on the air Temptatio Insulam next year?

Is fyco. (Si legge "is faico")

- Spiegazione:

Alberto Angela sarebbe conduttore, tentatore e narratore.

- Località:

Necropoli di Tarquinia / Lupanare di Pompei / catacombe di Priscilla e Colosseo /l'isola di Procida con i proci in piena prociaggine / città di Troi@ dove le troiane troiano / isola di Lesbo / isola di Creta

- Svolgimento:

Alcune coppie dovranno dimostrare il loro vero amore. (Per la cultura)

Verranno separate le coppie. Gli uomini andranno nelle lupanare di Pompei dove ci saranno le poppee, invece le donne nel Colosseo dove ci saranno i gladiatori. Quelli con il mirmillone assai pronunciato.

In qualsiasi momento un membro di una coppia può, tramite piccione viaggiatore, richiedere il falò dell'oracolo di Delfi.

Qui, alla presenza di Alberto Angela, la coppia si confronterà.

Se entrambi decideranno di mettersi alla prova, per sicurezza, l'uomo verrà mandato a Troi@ ("Ciao Penelope, vado a Troi@" -cit.; "Ma che pe' davero? E me lasci sola co' sti Proci?" -cit.), mentre la donna andrà a Cnosso dove c'è il Minotauro dotato. In un labirinto arredato con molto gusto da Arianna. Carinissimo, proprio... vorresti non uscirne più.

Se resisteranno alle tentazioni, ma sarà un'Odissea riuscirci, la coppia si ricongiungerà e usciranno di scena su una biga phiga che sfila senza sfiga in mezzo alla folla nel Circo Massimo.

Se la coppia non resisterà, l'uomo andrà a scontare le Forche Caudine a Procida con in Proci, la donna finirà sull'isola di Lesbo, indossando l'originale cintura di castità della Regina di Francia Caterina de' Medici, deve Saffo e le saffiche scrivono poesie e testi delle canzoni trap tutto il giorno.

-Finale:

Alla fine vincerà chi, tra le coppie riuscirà a dire correttamente, davanti ad Alberto Angela, i nomi de:

- i 7 re di Roma

- i 7 colli di Roma

- i 7 nani

- le 10 piaghe d'Egitto

- le 3 tentazioni di Cristo

- le 5 dita del piede sinistro

- le 5 Terre

Bonus: ripetere il nome dell'antico dio Maya "K'ukulk'an" in dialetto calabrese, guardandosi negli occhi senza ridere.

Dear RAI, what do you pens di questa my idea?

Is verry faiga second me.

Non ce ne sarebbe for anyone, all concorenza spazzata street (via).

Pensacete, think about it, atriment we're all cornut.

With love.

p.s. la scritta "Temptatio Insulam" non è grammaticamente corretta, sarebbe stato più giusto "Insula Tentationis", ma la prima scritta, seppur errata, assomiglia di più alla scritta originale di Temptation Island. ☺

[in-kyblogs]

need to know more about italian lestat and why is this so overshadowed by his french side 😤

Have you heard about the fact that Lestat is nonbinary on his mother side? We could say the Italian thing is the same kind of situation really lmao

His mother, Gabrielle De Lioncourt, was born in Naples and grew up there. It was common for Italian nobles to marry in France for political alliances reasons, the most famous is the Medici family from ‘400 Firenze: Caterina De’ Medici was a french queen in 1547 (fun fact: the Medici family seal has similarities to the royal French seals with the arald of a lily I think for some alliance thing in the ‘500 but I can’t exactly remember). But I digress. This is to say that, as direct neighbours, Italy and France have a lot of history and a lot of beef, mostly due to wine and cheese if you can believe it. And football. Oh, especially football.

Gabrielle isn’t really an affectionate mother, she has a complex and fascinating relationship to her role as a woman and a wife and a traumatic experience, I’d say, with giving birth to seven sons (can’t wait for her character in the show, especially since Hannah, who wrote a play on these themes called What a young wife ought to know, which I wholeheartedly recommend, said she is really excited to be writing for her!). This results in her and Lestat having a really weird relationship, cold and distant but at the same time extremely visceral due to the both of them being kind of prisoners in their own life. Gabrielle never teaches Lestat Italian, nor is particularly forthcoming about her old life or her cultural roots. When Lestat runs to Paris, Gabrielle tells him to find someone who can write Italian for him, so he can send her letters that his father can’t read. She also never bothered to teach him the alphabet, even less a second language, and she used to read Italian books that Lestat couldn’t understand. So, very mixed feelings about this on Lestat’s part I’d say. He is, I think, really resentful of this side of his mother that he isn’t allowed to know, but at the same time really fascinated by it: his first attempt at escaping is with an Italian troupe of commedia dell’arte actors, a type of play that involves a lot of improv. Basically you have a series of “maschere” (characters) that have a definite set of characteristics but no written lines (we call it canovaccio I have no idea how to translate this concept though). Each character is tied to a specific part of Italy, for example Pulcinella is the neapolitan one, Arlecchino (Harlequin) is from Bergamo (near Milan). Lestat plays Lelio in the book, a character from the italian play that is the maschera of the lover. (He is also the protagonist of a play by Goldoni where he is also a liar (title of the play Il Bugiardo), totally unrelated to iwtv but it always makes me laugh).

I basically wrote all this stuff to say that Lestat knows basically nothing about his italian heritage and that explains why it is so overshadowed by his french side, but I will say that both italian and french people are extremely extra, in wildly different ways and also they will fight each others over nothing (they stole the Gioconda btw), so this accounts for why Lestat is like that ™️. Particular about food? Italian heritage. Snobbish about music? French heritage. Extremely petty? Eh, to be fair, both. Will hold a grudge forever? I will tell you, during fifa and uefa football games we still yell at the French team about that time during the 2006 World Cup final when one of their players went and hit one of the Italian team players with a headbutt (Italy won btw💁🏻‍♀️). So yeah. Lestat never stood a chance really

[segretecose]

cesare hatefucks milf!caterina sforza 3+ times and kills her cousin (his sister’s ex husband) like an hour later, micheletto has gay sex on his father’s grave and confesses to patricide as he holds his gay lover in a chokehold, machiavelli has had enough of piero de medici’s cringe fail personality, the pope goes on a weekend getaway with his frenemy cardinal ascanio sforza, the roof of saint peter's collapses and some kid dies. dare i say most borgia episode of all time

[palecleverdoll]

Ages of Medici Women at First Marriage

I have only included women whose birth dates and dates of marriage are known within at least 1-2 years, therefore, this is not a comprehensive list.

This list is composed of Medici women from 1386 to 1691 CE; 38 women in total.

Piccarda Bueria, wife of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici: age 18 when she married Giovanni in 1386 CE

Contessina de’ Bardi, wife of Cosimo de’ Medici: age 25 when she married Cosimo in 1415 CE

Lucrezia Tornabuoni, wife of Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici: age 17 when she married Piero in 1444 CE

Bianca de’ Medici, daughter of Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici: age 14 when she married Guglielmo de’ Pazzi in 1459 CE

Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici: age 13 when she married Bernardo Rucellai in 1461 CE

Clarice Orsini, wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Lorenzo in 1469 CE

Caterina Sforza, wife of Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano: age 10 when she married Girolamo Riario in 1473 CE

Semiramide Appiano, wife of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici: age 18 when she married Lorenzo in 1482 C

Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 18 when she married Jacopo Salviati in 1488 CE

Alfonsina Orsini, wife of Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Piero in 1488 CE

Maddalena de’ Medici, daughter of Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 15 when she married Franceschetto Cybo in 1488 CE

Contessina de’ Medici, daughter of Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Piero Ridolfi in 1494 CE

Clarice de’ Medici, daughter of Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici: age 19 when she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger in 1508 CE

Filberta of Savoy, wife of Giuliano de’ Medici: age 17 when she married Giuliano in 1515 CE

Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne, wife of Lorenzo II de’ Medici: age 20 when she married Lorenzo in 1518 CE

Catherine de’ Medici, daughter of Lorenzo II de’ Medici: age 14 when she married Henry II of France in 1533 CE

Margaret of Parma, wife of Alessandro de’ Medici: age 13 when she married Alessandro in 1536 CE

Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici: age 17 when she married Cosimo in 1539 CE

Giulia de’ Medici, daughter of Alessandro de’ Medici: age 15 when she married Francesco Cantelmo in 1550 CE

Isabella de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Paolo Giordano I Orsini in 1558 CE

Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici: age 13 when she married Alfonso II d’Este in 1558 CE

Bianca Cappello, wife of Francesco I de’ Medici: age 15 when she married Pietro Bonaventuri in 1563 CE

Joanna of Austria, wife of Francesco I de’ Medici: age 18 when she married Francesco in 1565 CE

Camilla Martelli, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici: age 25 when she married Cosimo in 1570 CE

Eleanor de’ Medici, daughter of Francesco I de’ Medici: age 17 when she married Vincenzo I Gonzaga in 1584 CE

Virginia de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici: age 18 when she married Cesare d’Este in 1586 CE

Christina of Lorraine, wife of Ferdinando I de’ Medici: age 24 when she married Ferdinando in 1589 CE

Marie de’ Medici, daughter of Francesco I de’ Medici: age 25 when she married Henry IV of France in 1600 CE

Maria Maddalena of Austria, wife of Cosimo II de’ Medici: age 19 when she married Cosimo in 1608 CE

Caterina de’ Medici, daughter of Ferdinando I de’ Medici: age 24 when she married Ferdinando Gonzago in 1617 CE

Claudia de’ Medici, daughter of Ferdinando I de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Federico Ubaldo della Rovere in 1620 CE

Margherita de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Odoardo Farnese in 1628 CE

Vittoria della Rovere, wife of Ferdinando II de’ Medici: age 12 when she married Ferdinando in 1634 CE

Anna de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici: age 30 when she married Ferdinand Charles of Austria in 1646 CE

Marguerite Louise d’Orleans, wife of Cosimo III de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Cosimo in 1661 CE

Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, wife of Ferdinando de’ Medici: age 16 when she married Ferdinando in 1689 CE

Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenberg, wife of Gian Gastone de’ Medici: age 18 when she married Philipp Wilhelm of Neuberg in 1690 CE

Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo III de’ Medici: age 24 when she married Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in 1691 CE

The average age at first marriage among these women was 17 years old.

[jason-todd-is-a-real-mood]

Yasuke was a retainer of Oda nobunaga so I hope that Nobunaga is going to be a rather « good » guy or a bit like Lorenzo de Medici, Washington, Caterina sforza... Just don’t be the hidden antagonist that crushed Yasuke’s hope so he turns to the brotherhood.

I’m tired of the « trusted ally/mentor is secretly a Templar or is betraying us for personal (and very lazy) ambitions. ». It’s a bit too predictable now.

We had it in syndicate, unity, origins, Valhalla (multiple times)… and none of them were memorable enough to pull it off imo. Cesare and Rodrigo Borgia stay on top of the antagonist chart ( You too haytham you too ❤️)

I would also lowkey like Yasuke to be the more knowledgeable one about the creed as well.

[amypihcs]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers!

(Or don’t, no pressure)

SOOOO since i've been ignoring the askbox for a while i'll do all those i received of these.

Thanks for the ask, btw, and also thanks to the anon, @uygfiug and @neverquiteeden who sent me a similar ask, i love you a lot.

So 20 things that make me happy. Not in order.

my cats

my family

holmes and watson and thinking to them

writing or generally creating art

getting comments, i love all those who comment

what i study! biotechnology is great!

chocolate

shirts.

wearing my corset

dying my hair

reading! i'm reading a book on caterina de medici and loving it

music, exp metal (don't hate me my much more musical friend @i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end)

dinosaurs

spring and generally nice warm weather

a sunny sky

flowers. i agree with holmes, we have MUCH to hope from the flowers

reading manga and other comics

old tv series (granda holmes)

chatting of comics with my dad

sleeping

[minetteskvareninova]

Minette watches Medici, part 23 (Lost Souls)

-So, this is the culmination of Lorenzo's villain arch. He's fully the bad guy now. And I... Didn't hate that. The writing around that wasn't terrible, although it also wasn't exactly awe-inspiring either. My main problem with this episode is in the other half of this episode's emotional core - Lorenzo and Clarice's health complications, because the writing around that was an unmitigated dumpster fire.

-To start with, let's talk about the historical Lorenzo's health. The thing is, he has suffered from an array of chronic health issues since he was a young man, at the time thought to have been the result of gout, though I've seen modern research dispute this; Wikipedia links a paper that claims Lorenzo de' Medici suffered from acromegaly and his death might's been a result of complications from that.

-Either way, you'll notice that the IRL version is actually better written than the show one. Not only does Lorenzo launch the house of Medici into unprecedented heights despite his chronic health issues (the Handicapped Badass trope and all that), but his premature death is properly foreshadowed instead of Lorenzo suddenly starting to limp, causing doctor to announce he is dying of... Gout? Yeah, that's another thing. Gout ISN'T A DEADLY DISSEASE. You can't die from gout, you just can't. Now, it does contribute to kidney diseasses that can actually kill you, and also is a result of a garbage lifestyle (bad diet, lack of excersise, that sort of thing) that can cause other, more lethal complications. But it never kills you on its own. Like, you could maybe justify some of the inaccuracy by "well, the renessaince doctor wouldn't know any of THAT", but this still leaves us with how sudden the deterioration of Lorenzo's health is in the show and how mild his symptoms are compared to real life. Neither of which is a good change, to be honest.

-But at least he doesn't just drop dead of completely unexplained reasons like his poor wife! Like, if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say Clarice died of a miscarriage, except she doesn't even bleed??? She just collapses, at first seemingly in tears of guilt, but not in physical pain... And then Lucrezia D is carrying her home? And in a few minutes (and seemingly a couple of hours at most in-universe) of screentime, she is just dead?! Did she died of broken heart or some shit?! Look, real Clarice died of tuberculosis, and I know in the show it would probably just sound like a rethread of Simonetta's death. I get that changing it to miscarriage makes a lot of sense considering that was indeed something potentially lethal back then, also Clarice had several in her life, so it's not a bad idea in principle. I also get that the writers were trying to tie Lorenzo's personal tragedy to his professional downfall. But in so doing, they rendered a powerful scene of Clarice being overwhelmed by guilt and despair over her husband's actions kinda silly by almost implying guilt and despair killed her?

-And don't get me wrong, it is a very powerful scene! I actually liked it a lot! Even the previous scene of Clarice learning Lorenzo sold their little girl to pope's failson isn't bad, especially since it retroactively gives more narrative weight to Lorenzo's previous disgust at another very young girl, Caterina Sforza, marrying a papal failson (well, failnephew, but you know).

-I am a bit miffed at the show's inconsistency around just how corrupt the renessaince papacy is. Like, at first, it doesn't seem nearly as bad as it is in The Borgias, but then Lorenzo apparently considers asking the pope to name his 14-year old son a cardinal perfectly normal, or at least nothing that a strategic match cannot fix??? It also begs the question why the fuck would the pope even agree to that considering he should still be mad about Sarzano, but okay.

-The one and only thing that I liked, nay, loved about Clarice's death... We got one last Clarice x Lucrezia D moment out of it! I know I shouldn't celebrate my girl dying, but like. Look at the pathetic little breadcrumbs they feed us shippers this season. I can't let my obsession starve to death, you know!

-I am not sure whether what Lorenzo did to poor Anna the beggar counts as bribery or gaslighting, but I guess the grey area was the point. Either way, I liked it! And I liked her giving money to Savonarola, overcome with guilt! See, I can be fair to this show, even if I am tired of it and can't wait for the final episode!

-I liked other things too, like Lorenzo going full villain mode and Piero grieving Tomasso. Even if Piero's actor... Look, Tewkesbury from Enola Holmes was 16, it's a bit more understandable if he doesn't hit every note. He isn't completely terrible in this, just... Not good.

-I only noticed in this episode that Savonarola is played by an Italian and dubbed. And I noticed, because the dub of his speech at the beginning, while passionate, clearly did not go as hard as the actor's expressions suggest he did in the original audio.

-Okay, that was exhausting. Onto the final episode!