Clarice Orsini
Clarice Orsini | |
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Lady of Florence | |
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours | |
Father | Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano |
Mother | Maddalena Orsini |
Clarice Orsini (1453–1488)[1] was the daughter of Jacopo Orsini, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini both from the Orsini family, a great Roman noble house[2] and was the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici.
Life
Clarice and Lorenzo married 4 June 1469,
The political nature of her marriage meant that she was often called upon by each side of her family to influence the other.
Clarice's religious upbringing was a bit in contrast with the
During the
succeeded in murdering Giuliano, but Lorenzo survived the attack, thus the conspirators' plan to replace the Medicis as de facto rulers of Florence failed).Clarice returned to Rome several times to visit her relatives; she also visited
On 30 July 1488 she died in Florence, and was buried two days later.[15] Her husband was not with her when she died, nor did he attend the funeral,[15] because he himself was very ill and was in Bad Filetta near Siena to get cured.
The fact that Lorenzo was away from home when she died, affected even more his mood. Piero da Bibbiena, private chancellor of the Magnificent, wrote the following letter to the Florentine Ambassador in Rome :
Yesterday morning at 2 pm Clarice died. If you hear Lorenzo blamed for not being present at the death of his wife, excuse him. It seemed necessary...that he brought water from the Villa; and no one thought that she would die so soon.
In a letter to Pope Innocent VIII he wrote that he dearly missed his late wife.[16] The content of Lorenzo's letter to the Pope is the following:
The death of my dearest and sweetest wife Clarice, that recently happened to me, it is of so much damage, prejudice, and pain for infinite reasons, that it has overcome my patience and resistance to the troubles and persecutions of fate, for which I did not think that I would be so affected. And this, to be deprived of such sweet habits and companionship...made me feel, and currently makes me feel, as if I'm lost.
Issue
Clarice and Lorenzo had ten children:
- Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany), and Francesca Salviati (mother of Pope Leo XI).
- Male twins who died after birth (March 1471).
- Piero de' Medici (Florence, 15 February 1472 – Garigliano River, 28 December 1503), ruler of Florence after his father's death, called "the Unfortunate"
- Maddalena de' Medici (Florence, 25 July 1473 – Rome, 2 December 1528), married 25 February 1487 Franceschetto Cybo (illegitimate son of Pope Innocent VIII) and had eight children
- Contessina Beatrice de' Medici (23 September 1474 - September 1474), died young
- Giovanni de' Medici (Florence, 11 December 1475 – Rome, 1 December 1521), ascended to the Papacy as Pope Leo X on 9 March 1513.
- Giovanni de' Medici il Popolanobut died young.
- Contessina de' Medici (Pistoia, 16 January 1478 – Rome, 29 June 1515); married 1494 Piero Ridolfi (1467 - 1525) and had five children, including Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi.
- Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (Florence, 12 March 1479 – Florence, 17 March 1516), created Duke of Nemours in 1515 by King Francis I of France.
Their children were taught by
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In popular culture
She appears in the second season of Medici, played by Synnøve Karlsen. She also appears in the Starz series Da Vinci's Demons played by Lara Pulver.[19]
References
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 7.
- ^ a b Tomas 2003, p. 18-19.
- ^ a b Pernis & Adams 2006, p. 73.
- ^ a b Tomas 2003, p. 19.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 44.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 59.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 51.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 51,62.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 61-62.
- ISBN 978-88-7989-921-5.
- ISBN 9781605204758.
- ISBN 0241112184.
More solid evidence of a warm and close relationship would seem to exist in the regular annual production, interrupted only by miscarriages, of new inmates for the Medici nursery, and in the concern shown for each other in the correspondence of husband and wife. When Lorenzo was away, Clarice worried ceaselessly about his health and his state of mind, and regularly dispatched presents, food and comforts to him. He, for his part, wrote to her regularly and, no matter how tired he was, normally with his own hand, always addressing these letters to 'my very dear wife'. This warm and close relationship could only be strengthened by the common delight which both parents took in their seven offspring.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 31.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 31-32.
- ^ a b c d e Tomas 2003, p. 24.
- ^ Ingeborg Walter: Der Prächtige – Lorenzo de’ Medici und seine Zeit. München 2005, S. 250.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 7,21.
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 24,86.
- ^ "Da Vinci's Demons". IMDB. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
Sources
- Pernis, Maria Grazia; Adams, Laurie (2006). Lucrezia Tornabuoni De' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-0820476452.
- Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754607771.