 The Farewell of Ludovico il Moro to the Ashes of his Wife Beatrice d'Este, Giovanni Battista Gigola, c. 1815, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. | |
| Date | January 2-3, 1497 |
|---|---|
| Location | Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
| Cause | Premature delivery or poisoning |
| Deaths | Mother and son |
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, died during childbirth on the night of January 2 to 3, 1497. Bad omens preceded the event, and many historians believe it led to the downfall of her husband, Duke Ludovico il Moro, who lost power a few years later.[1][2] It had a big impact in Italy and abroad,[3] upsetting the previously established political balance and becoming the subject of many works of art and literature.[4]
The deceased experienced a kind of symbolic deification by her husband,[5] who manifested "an almost maddening mourning."[6] Another version of the event, handed down by the historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, suggests that she died by poisoning.[7]
"Sad becomes at its end every thing that among mortals had appeared happy."
- ^ Gaspare Visconti, Rodolfo Renier, Tip. Bortolotti di Giuseppe Prato, 1886, pp. 6-7.
- ^ Altavilla (1878, p. 4).
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- ^ Quoted with translation in Gian Guido Belloni, Il Castello Sforzesco di Milano, Bramante, Milano, 1966, p. 25.
- ^ Atra in fine suo fiunt omnia quae intra mortales felicitatem habuisse videntur. (Antonio Monti; Paolo Arrigoni (1931). La vita nel Castello Sforzesco attraverso i tempi. Antonio Cordani S. A. p. 131.)
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