Luisa Strozzi, also known as Luigia, was a Florentine Renaissance noblewoman, daughter of the prominent banker
Filippo the Younger and of
Clarice de' Medici, granddaughter of
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (; 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the '' de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lo ...
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She was said to have been insulted by
Giovanni Salviati, and close friend of
Alessandro de' Medici. After one such event, Salviati was ambushed and wounded at night by unknown assailants. Suspicion fell on the Strozzi, but no evidence was amassed.
Rebuffing his advances and those of the Duke, she was forced to flee Florence. It is said she was poisoned by agents of the Duke. In 1832, a three volume tragic novel by
Giovanni Rosini loosely based on the story was published.
The story was also made by 1847 into an opera with
Pietro Martini as librettist and Gualterio Sanelli as composer.
Luisa Strozzi : dramma tragico in tre atti : da rappresentarsi nel teatro Carlo Felice il carnevale del 1847
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1534 deaths
Nobility from the Republic of Florence