Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . onably theStanze per la Giostra, which were written, as we have seen, tocommemorate the tournament held (in the Piazza of S. Croce),on Giulianos coming of age in 1475. It was never finished;for in 1476 Giulianos dearly loved lady, la hella Simonetta,whose beauty and virtues were its main theme, suddenly died,^and was borne to her grave with face uncovered amidst thelamen
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . onably theStanze per la Giostra, which were written, as we have seen, tocommemorate the tournament held (in the Piazza of S. Croce),on Giulianos coming of age in 1475. It was never finished;for in 1476 Giulianos dearly loved lady, la hella Simonetta,whose beauty and virtues were its main theme, suddenly died,^and was borne to her grave with face uncovered amidst thelamentations of all the Florentines ; and two years laterGiuliano himself was assassinated. The zjt stanzas of which 1 Simonetta Cattaneo of Genoa, wife of one of the Florentine was buried in the Ognissanti church in Florence, where lie also Botticelliand that Amerigo Vespucci from whom America derives its name. Besidespossible portraits of her in Botticellis pictures, an ugly portrait, surely notof her nor by Botticelli, is to be seen in the Pitti Gallery, and a no less uglybust. In France (Chantilly) is a striking and probably authentic likeness ofher by Piero di Cosimo. See Mrs. Adys Painters of
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