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| Galeazzo II of Milan @Wikipedia |
(1324-1378)
Duca di Milano
1349-1378
Son of Stefano Visconti di Milano & Valentina Doria
Wife of Bianca di Savoia (1337-1387), mar 1350
His lover was:
Natural offspring:
Gian Galeazzo I Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
(1351-1402)
1st Duke of Milan
1395-1402
Son of Galeazzo II Visconti & Bianca di Savoia
Husband of:
1. Isabella de Valois, Comtesse de Vertus (1348-1372), mar 1360, daughter of Jean II de France & Bonne of Bohemia
2. Caterina Visconti (1361-1404), mar 1380, daughter of Bernabo Visconti of Milan and Beatrice Regina della Scala
His lover was:
Agnese Mantegazza.
Lover in 1384-1389.
Natural offspring:
1. Gabriele Maria Visconti (1385-1407), Signore di Pisa.
2. Valentina Visconti.
"...But Giangaleazzo turned for softer consolation to Agnese Mantegazza, a Milanese lady on whom he bestowed many honours; a square in Pavia bore her name, and she owned the Castello of Sant' Angelo; when she travelled, she moved as a princess, 'with great company.'..." (Bueno de Mesquita, p. 40)
"...[I]n 1397, Giangaleazzo Visconti conquered the city, and left it, on his death in 1402, to his mistress, Agnese Mantegazza, and to their son, Gabriello Maria Visconti. But Messer Gabriel Maria was not strong enough to keep Pisa single handed against his envious neighbours of Florence, Genoa, and Lucca; so on April 15, 1404, he agreed to hold the city as a fief of France." (Robinson, p. 340) [Gen1] [Ref1:Kleio]
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| Galeazzo Maria Sforza @Wikipedia |
(1444-1476)
5th Duke of Milan 1466
Husband of:
1. Dorotea Gonzaga of Mantua (1449-1467), mar 1466, daughter of Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua & Barbara von Brandenburg
2. Bonne de Savoie (1449-1503), mar 1468, daughter of Louis de Savoie & Anne de Lusignan of Cyprus
His lovers were:
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| Lucrezia Landriani @Wikipedia |
1) Lucrezia Landriani (1440-?).
"Caterina was born in MIlan in 1463, the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, heir to the Duchy, and his mistress Lucrezia Landriani, who was married to one of his courtiers. He was the always-useful compliant husband, as Lucrezia and Galeazzo Sforza had at least four children together. Galeazzo was known to be a womaniser, and had had two wives plus several mistresses over the years, so he had several 'families' to provide for. He was known also to have a cruel streak and had made many enemies. He was reputed to take some pleasure in devising tortures for those who offended him." (Women of the Vatican: Female Power in a Male World)
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| Lucia Marliani @Wikipedia |
2) Lucia Marliani.
" . . . Invested with the title 'xountess of Melzo and Gorgonzola, Lucia was allowed to incorporate the biscione stemma of the Sforza and Visconti dynasties into her own insignia of two doves on an azure background. Lucia was granted large allowances, property both inside and outside Milan, expensive jewels and clothes, profitable jurisdictional exemptions and rights over collecting lucrative duties on bread, wine, salt and meat. Her husband, A,brogio Raverti, was given 4,000 ducats and the prestigious position of podesta of Como, and Lucia's sisters were provided with sizable dowries. Lucia and her heirs were protected by these charters, which the Duke repeatedly declared irrevocable against eventual claims brought by his legitimate children. As Gregory Lubki suggested, one document was a curse on anyone who might interfere with donations to Lucia. . . ." (Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy:"Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment")
"While Galeazzo enjoyed other mistresses and begat many bastards, Lucia, from an aristocratic family allied to the Sforza since Francesco's rise to power, was by far the best rewarded of Galeazzo's mistresses not only because of his love but also because of her family's nobility. Documents record an ongoing alliance between the Marliani and Sforza contracted by and involving women, and 'exclusive sexual rights' were granted to Galeazzo Maria not only by Lucia's husband but also by her mother. Her mother's involvement, together with the financial advantage enjoyed by all three daughters, demonstrates the opportunity for women of the upper class to make use of their dynastic sexual capital to their advantage: women are here both agents and objects. These documents employ amorous language and were witnessed by members of important Milanese and nothern Italian dynasties. The relationship between Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Lucia Marliani, then, provided sexual pleasure, economic reward and mutually beneficial multilineal bonds beyond those of marriage, expanding each dynasty's network of courtly alliances through an emphatically public and erotic celebration of extramarital love." (Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy:"Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment")
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| Ludovico Maria Sforza @Wikipedia |
(1452-1508)
Duke of Milan
1494-1499
Husband of: Beatrice d'Este di Ferrara (1475-1497), mar 1490, daughter of Ercole I d'Esta di Ferrara & Leonora di Napoli.
His lovers were:
1) Bernardina de Corradis.
2) Cecilia Gallerani (1473-1536)
Wife of Lodovico Carminati de' Brambilla
"Having caught Ludovico Sforza's eye, Cecilia Gallerani was painted circa 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci (possibly more than once) and celebrated by the poet Bernardo Bellincioni. Favors were soon showered upon the Gallerani, a noble family long loyal to the Sofrza. Sigerio Gallerani, Cecilia's eldest brother, was cleared of murder charges thanks to Ludovico Sforza's personal intervention, and other male relatives were granted clerical offices and were able to regain lands confiscated after the recent death of their father Fazio. Indicating the significance of mistresses as providers of additional heirs, Cecilia was rewarded with jurisdictional and economic rights to Soronno two weeks after giving birth to Ludovico's first son, Cesare. Evelyn Welch has underlined the political and dynastic importance of this birth for Ludovico, arguing that he 'finalized his authority over the Castello Sforzesco by displaying Cecilia and his new heir in a room significantly located adjacent to the castle's treasury. Cecilia's eventual marriage to Count Ludovico Bergamino and Ludovico Sforza's subsequent gift of the Palazzo Carmagnola to Cesare and Cecilia suggest that offering sexual and reproductive favors were concrete ways in which mistresses could increase their own security and the prestige, power and wealth of their family." (Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: "Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment")
3) Lucrezia Crivelli.
Bernabo I Visconti di Milano.
" . . . Bernabo Visconti of Milan flourished in the middle of the fourteenth century and was the happy father of many children, both legitimate and illegitimate; one of his mistresses kept a court of her own, frequented by poers, musicians and singers, and interchanged presents with reigning princes. By another favourite mistress he had a daughter whom he named Bernarda. When she was little more than a child, he gave her hand, for political reasons, to Giovanni Suardi Cavaliere, the head of a distinguished Ghibelline family of Bergamo. The bride was a short, fat girl with reddish hair, a turned-up nose and a lively disposition. She made many pleasing visits to her father, who was extremely partial to her, perhaps because she bore a striking resemblance to her mother, both in looks and disposition. Now, it was whispered to Bernabo that Bernarda, when she visited Milan, was in the habot of admitting a lover to her bed-chamber. Such an outrage on a political alliance could not be tolerated. The truth of the allegation was proved, a charge of robbery was trumped up against the unfotunate inammorato, one Antoniolo Zotta, and he was whisked off to prison and thence taken to the gallows, seated on an ass, by way of added indignity. Bernarda was sent to a fortress and shut up with Andriola Visconti, the daughter of Matteo Visconti, Abbess of the Monasterio Maggiore, who has already been mentioned, and who was also under a charge of incontinence. By the virtuous despot's orders, both were put on a diet of bread and water; he had the warrant of the statutes of 1351 for his act; he meant both women to die of starvation and was much chagrined to find that his daughter held out so long.
His lovers were:
1) Beltameda Cassa
2) Beltramola Grassi
3) Caterina di Cremona
4) Donnina Porro
5) Giovannina di Montebretto
6) Margherita Infrascati
7) Montanina de Lazzari.
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