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The courtly nature of the love affair can be fleshed out by the letters and ricordanze of contemporaries, as in the case of Lucrezia Donati, the love of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Lucrezia, along with Simonetta Vespucci and others form the subject of Charles Dempsey’s The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s “Primavera” .
From 1461 was the mistress of Lorenzo il Magnifico, [9] a platonic love, [10] until Lorenzo later married the Italian noble Clarice Orsini. [11] In 1486 Lorenzo remembered the poems he had written for her when he was 16 in the poem Corinto. Lucrezia married the Florentian businessman Niccolò Ardighelli, who died in exile in 1496. [9]
My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day.
Nov 19, 2014 · The truth was that Lorenzo was in love, had been since before he laid eyes on Clarice…to Lucrezia Donati. While notions abound and debate as to whether their relationship was one of courtly love or true marital infidelity, Lorenzo’s devotion was not only intense, but lifelong, as evidenced by the many poems and verses written to her and ...
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Some women, such as Lucrezia Donati, Simonetta Vespucci, Ginevra dei Benci could flirt with romantic love outside marriage without serious peril to their status; for others, however, sexual involvement brought marginality and life-long exclusion from social normalcy.
Celebrated with the trappings of medieval courtly romance, the affairs were a source of intense public interest and enthusiastic approval, particularly in Florence, where the Medici set a powerful example. Lorenzo de’ Medici declared Lucrezia Donati as his platonic love, and his younger brother Giuliano devoted himself to Simonetta Vespucci ...
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Apr 24, 2024 · It is a document that focuses on the celebrations accompanying the wedding of Lucrezia Donati, the object of Lorenzo's affections, to Niccolò Ardinghelli, an anti-Medicean living in exile.
