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 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 |
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| Location | Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
| Cause | Premature delivery or poisoning |
| Deaths | Mother and son |
The death of Beatrice d'Este, duchess of Milan, occurred by childbirth on the night of January 2 to 3, 1497. The event was preceded by sinister omens and, in the opinion of many prominent historians, marked the ruin of her husband and duke Ludovico il Moro, who lost the rule of the state a few years later.[1][2] It had a wide echo throughout Italy and even abroad,[3] upsetting the previously established political balances, and became the subject of artistic and literary production in contemporary as well as later centuries.[4]
The deceased experienced, within the limits of the Christian religion, a kind of symbolic deification by her husband,[5] who manifested "an almost maddening mourning."[6] According to another version of the fact, handed down by historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, her death did not occur from natural causes, but from poisoning, following a courtier plot.[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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