Luisa Strozzi
Florentine noblewoman
Luisa (Luigia) Capponi Strozzi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Luisa Strozzi Florence,Italy |
| Died | 4 December 1534 Paris, France |
| Spouse | Luigi Capponi |
| Parent | Filippo Strozzi the Younger |
Luisa (Luigia) Capponi Strozzi was a Florentine Renaissance noblewoman, daughter of the prominent banker Filippo the Younger.[1]
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.[2] In 1832, a three volume tragic novel by Giovanni Rossini loosely based on the story was published.[3]
The story was also made by 1847 into an opera with Pietro Martini as librettist and Gualterio Sanelli as composer.[4]
References
- ^ https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigi-capponi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
- ^ [Fillipo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty], by T. Adolphus Trollope, Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, London (1860); pages 243-245.
- ^ [https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Quarterly_Review_Or_Home_Foreign_and/ldwRAAAAYAAJ The Foreign and Colonia Quarterly Review], Volume III; January 1844; Smith, Elder and Co. London; page 56.
- ^ Luisa Strozzi : dramma tragico in tre atti : da rappresentarsi nel teatro Carlo Felice il carnevale del 1847.
