Posted on 10/20/2022 5:07:00 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1526, Bianca Maria Gaspardone was beheaded at Milan’s Castello di Porta Giova, the present-day Castello Sforzesco.
She was only about 26 years old, but onto her second* dynastic marriage — this to Renato di Challant.
As the story was later recorded in Matteo Bandello‘s Novelle,** the young woman had wealth and options, and with her husband off fighting in Milan’s war against France, she indulged a series of boudoir intrigues — critically for our purposes, one Ardizzino Valperga, Count of Masino.
Per Bandello, the Lady of Challant grew annoyed by him and tried to dispose of him by provoking a quarrel between he and another of her lovers, the Count of Gaiazzo — but the two men compared notes and simply arrived at a mutual contempt for her....
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Bianca tangled with the wrong fellows.
Oh how we love the small bits of twisted history.
It’s a real romance killer when both your lovers meet to compare your attributes...
It also seems that among the Italioan nobility , many lost their jeads. She lost hers and a few years later her father managed to lose his. Meanwhile the rakes got off Scot Free.
Perhaps the peasantry were fortunate after all.
It’s a real romance killer when both your lovers meet to compare your attributes...>>>>>
The good Countess acted too slowly to take them both in hand rATher than propose A REVENGE murder.......IN HER CASE A FATAL MISTAKE.
If she had been a French Countess at the Court of Louis XIV, the whole matter would have been quickly solved by a meange a trois demanded by Quatorze himself, in full view of his personal retinue.
The real hhistory of Europes nobility is sometimes laciviously beyond decadent. No wonder the French offed all of theior royalty, they were paying for the setting of all of the royal intrigues whichi enforced poverty and sickness in the commoners.
One wonders of the British monarchy will survive the dynamic, which is still going on on our modern context.Meghan, Harry, Lady Diana,Andrew...the only thing missing is the guillotine.
The British monarchy will survive for one reason: it is nothing but a Soap Opera.
It gives the average British subject something to gossip about and be entertained by.
If the show is for free. BUt it is not.
Now look what you did, made me have to do research… 🙂
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/they-cost-us-a-mint-but-bring-in-much-more/
Turns out they actually pay more to the British Treasury than they take out. Plus the money from tourism.
As long as they contribute more to the British government than it costs they will be around.
But in the end it doesn’t bother me because I live in a country that threw off their yoke a few centuries ago. And the continued antics of the British royal family proves on a daily basis that it was the right thing to do.
Gawd Shave de King!
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