Architecture

Death of Beatrice d'Este

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, died during childbirth on the night of 2 to 3 January 1497. Bad omens preceded the event, and many historians believe it led to the downfall of her husband, Duke Ludovico Sforza, who lost power a few years later. It had a big impact in Italy and abroad, upsetting the previously established political balance and becoming the subject of many works of art and literature. The deceased experienced a kind of symbolic deification by her husband, who manifested "an almost maddening mourning." Another version of the event, handed down by the historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, suggests that she died by poisoning. "Sad becomes at its end every thing that among mortals had appeared happy."

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• ▸Architecture of Tamil Nadu
• ▸Blue Foundation
• ▸French Renaissance architecture

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