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The couple wanted to increase their influence outside of Florence, especially in the Roman courts. [32] In spring 1467, she visited the Pope again while seeking women suitable to marry her son Lorenzo. [33] [19] To improve the family's social status, Lucrezia arranged for her son to marry Clarice Orsini in June 1469. [32]
Alessandra Macinghi married Matteo di Simone Strozzi on June 10, 1422, bringing a dowry of 1,600 florins. [1] [6] Due to her father's death, Strozzi's marriage was negotiated by her stepmother and uncles. [3] Strozzi and Matteo had 9 children together, 8 of which survived infancy and 5 of whom survived to adulthood.
In medieval Europe, there was a geographic contrast in the proportions of single women. In England in 1377, about one-third of adult women were single women. [1] In Florence city of Italy, in 1427, about one-fifth of adult women were single. [1] In northern Europe, women often married in their mid-twenties.
Olsen was the daughter of Walter and Paula Olsen, of Summer Haven, Florida. [8] [4] [9] [10] She was a 1999 graduate of St. Joseph Academy.She moved to Florence in 2014 after the breakup of her marriage to South African diver Grant Jankielsohn, [11] and with the intention of studying art and in order to live near her father, who teaches at an American school in Florence.
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
On Edward and Florence's honeymoon at Chesil Beach, their backgrounds and temperaments come to the fore: Edward's quickness to anger and occasional physical belligerence, and Florence's unspoken relationship with her father, who obviously dominates her. They are both inexperienced sexually, and their first attempt at sex goes badly wrong when ...
Romola is a historical novel written between 1862 and 1863 by English author Mary Ann Evans under the pen name of George Eliot set in the fifteenth century. It is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". [1]
Florence Bravo (née Campbell; 5 September 1845 – 17 September 1878), previously known as Florence Ricardo, was an Australian-born British heiress and widow who was linked to the unsolved murder of her second husband, Charles Bravo.