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The cynical William Elliot's past is revealed to Anne by Mrs. Smith: [90] "He wanted to make his fortune quickly and was determined to do so through marriage." He wed a well-bred and well-dowered heiress, prudently ensuring the exact amount of her fortune before committing.
Donati was born to Manetto and Maria Donati in around 1267, two years after her future husband, Dante Alighieri. The Donati family was a wealthy family in medieval Florence. She was betrothed to Dante in 1277 [3] when he was either 11 [4] or 12 years old.
Roman emperor Elagabalus married Aquilia Severa first as his second wife, then divorced her to marry another woman, but soon divorced his third wife to remarry Aquilia; Kid McCoy, American prize fighter, who married and divorced ten times, but only from eight women, since three of those marriages were to the same spouse, Julia Woodruff
Florence and the Machine's fourth studio album High as Hope was released on 29 June 2018. [58] On 22 May 2018, Florence Welch performed a duet with Mick Jagger, at London Stadium, during the Rolling Stones' No Filter Tour. They sang "Wild Horses". In July 2018, Welch published her first book Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry.
Songwriting becomes one of Allison's outlets, and the two tunes she produces, "I Hate Myself" and "The Best Part," speak directly to her state of mind on her long road to recovery.
King Francis wanted Catherine to be raised at the French court, but Pope Leo refused, claiming he wanted her to marry Ippolito de' Medici. [10] Leo made Catherine Duchess of Urbino but annexed most of the Duchy of Urbino to the Papal States , permitting Florence to keep only the Fortress of San Leo .
Alessandra di Filippo Macinghi was born between 1406 and 1408 to Filippo di Niccolò Macinghi and Caterina di Bernardo Alberti. [1] The date of her birth is contested as the final entry in her book of accounts in 1471 gives her age as 63 but a tax document from 1427 claims her age to be 22 years and 2 months. [1]
One of the most well-known examples in this context is the marriage network of sixteen families in Florence, which showed how the Medici family gained power and took control of Florence by creating a high number of inter-marriages with the other families. [1] “