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e the princess she was so much high stakes politics personal mystery behind one not so simple hat i hope you enjoyed joining me in my fascination with the complex meaning of lorenzo s choice to remember clarice and encourage their kids to remember their mom wearing her extremely illegal hat for more tales like this of clarice lorenzo their kids etc inventing the renaissance coming soon share gonzaga vs sanseverino i fart in your general direction posted by assistant on february 5 2025 history inventing the renaissance 1 buckle up friends it s time for the real life i fart in your general direction marquis francesco gonzaga s unforgettable reply to the 1503 duel challenge from galeazzo sanseverino part of my countdown to inventing the renaissance i posted last time introducing galeazzo sanseverino son of fortune the famously handsome mercenary captain and lover of duke ludovico visconti sforza who held such sway in his beloved s city that the milanese called him the second duke everyone doted on galeazzo even the french generals he fought wars against and also the nearly impossible to please isabella d este sister of the duke of ferrara the famous art lover patroness of leonardo da vinci and the most easily affronted woman in the renaissance titian s portrait of isabella d este isabella frowns disapprovingly at the viewer the only people who did not love the dashing and fortunate galeazzo were rival mercenary commanders who lost out on valuable commissions leading milan s armies as ludovico started promoting his beloved over all others detail portrait of ludovico sforza from the pala sforzesca portrait possibly of galeazzo sanseverino trusting one s lover with one s armies was not a bad tactic since your true love will not change sides for cash mid war like mercenaries so often did for a sample of strategic side changing see william caferro s fabulous book on john hawkwood one rival who lost out through galeazzo s promotion was francesco gonzaga marquess of mantua a formidable military commander and ruler of a very militarily important city state strategically positioned in the intersection of milan s territory venice s and ferrara s portrait of francesco gonzaga francesco gonzaga came from extremely noble stock his mother and grandmother were kinswomen of the holy roman emperors his sister elizabetta the duke of urbino and he himself married the splendid isabella d este sister of galeazzo s lover ludovico s wife beatrice who also loved galeazzo painting of isabella and beatrice d este together as girls from a fresco in the family palace when tensions mounted until galeazzo challenged francesco gonzaga to a duel by letter francesco began his unforgettable reply with prù this is a fart sound i make with my mouth with the addition of a fuck you gesture manichetto and a fig sign photograph of a stone statue probably depicting galeazzo sanseverino as the model for saint victor the martyr statue in milan cathedral museum he has his arms bound behind him much like images of saint sebastian but more military a pose with strong homoerotic associations in the period as now print portrait of francesco gonzaga his coat of arms with imperial eagle imagery appears in the top left corner gonzaga the letter continues was lord of the great city of mantua galeazzo a born vagabond who lived like dogs do at the expense of others a prostitute famous only for his ass favors adding i have my parties at the door of others not at mine i e when i have gay sex i m on the top you re on the bottom such ferocious sexual language was not unusual from gonzaga a man who often sealed his letters not with a signet ring with his coat of arms but an image from an ancient roman token depicting a couple having anal sex we aren t 100 sure how these tokens were used in antiquity but many thousands exist depicting different sex acts one theory is that they were tokens used at brothels one bought them at the central cashier and redeemed inside like ordering off a menu with tokens with a photo of the food and gonzaga was a collector of antiquities especially crude antiquities ancient rome left us thousands of phalluses phallus shaped lamps ceramic good luck phalluses displayed by the doors of shops to bring abundance the many phalluses broken off of ancient statues by accidents or deliberate art censorship and gonazaga was one of many collectors four ancient roman clay oil lamps in the shape of satyrs with enormous penises from the secret cabinet of the archaeological museum in naples which collects a huge number of the kinds of sexually explicit antiquities that fascinated gonzaga and his contemporaries from the same museum collection an ancient roman bronze flying phallus with additional phalluses coming off of it with bells hanging from it designed to hang like a wind chime or a bell on a store s front door for those wondering gonzaga did not use the anal sex image to seal letters to his wife isabella d este he had a more formal seal for such letters there are fascinating collections of their letters showing their negotiated co rule of mantua and almost good cop bad cop balancing of performance of power gonzaga also had a love affair with his sister in law lucrezia borgia wife of isabella s brother duke alfonso d este of ferrara lucrezia s more famous affair was with the poet scholar pietro bembo whose exchange poetic romantic letters byron called the prettiest love letters in the world the lucrezia gonzaga letters are not like that and much more along the lines of let me describe my enormous penis i love when you describe your enormous penis their contrast with the lucrezia bembo letters reveal lucrezia as who enjoyed many different genres of love relationship francesco gonzaga s refusal to duel galeazzo sanseverino though hilariously dramatic was also strategic magnifying the differences between the two of them in order to avoid risking losing face if he lost the duel against galeazzo given that this is 1503 many are surprised to see gay sex be so overt both in gonzaga s letter and galezzo s relationship with duke ludovico a gay relationship fully public in the face of all italy didn t the inquisition police such things with an iron fist yes and no the answer is that renaissance justice was extremely malleable if one had political influence meaning in the period patronage if you were powerful duke marquis cardinal you and those in your favor could get away with anything and not just local enforcement but even the inquisition didn t dare interfere there s a letter from a friend in rome to machiavelli saying rome is cracking down on homosexuality and all their gay friends who don t work for cardinals are scared doing things like hiring female prostitutes to hang around make them look straight those who work for cardinals are safe elite favor created bubbles of liberty beyond the law we even have letters of inquisitors complaining to each other about dukes insisting their courtiers and favorite scholars be allowed to have and read banned books and that they can do nothing the inquisition needed local authorities to cooperate with them lend them troops jail cells etc and the popes were from political families and needed allies and would rather let the duke of milan parade his boyfriend around than piss him off in the middle of a french invasion map of central and northern italy circa 1450 showing the papal states surrounded by a complex colorful array of other powers clearly a messy political situation this applied high low in florence a carpenter who works for a middlingly important family gets in trouble he writes to his employer they write to a bigger family they serve a letter from lorenzo de medici or palla strozzi gets the sentence on the books death reduced to a small fine goldsmith benvenuto cellini s unreasonably interesting autobiography describes how he would wait until he had a major commission from a pope or a king then murder someone he hated knowing the patron will get him off in order to still get the art they commissioned cellini boasts of this expecting the audience to be impressed with his cleverness in manipulating the system to get away with murder maiming vandalism necromancy really and a variety of sexual exploits cellini s idol role model famously gay michelangelo was similarly never in danger since his boss was always a pope or duke even a pope authorized a crackdown on the general populace it didn t apply to the man painting his holiness s ceiling this is why those goons at the start of romeo juliet are willing to risk their lives for the montagues capulets lord capulet is their social safety net who ll care for them if they re disabled raise their orphans if they re killed get them off if they commit crimes and protect them if they re queer this flexible judicial system one sentence on the books a much lighter one if someone important writes a letter is how homosexuality radical heterodoxy etc could be illegal yet not covert and how the ferocious sentence in the law off with his head off with his hands was so rarely enforced that it s the aberration not the norm my friend michael roche s brilliant book forbidden friendships shows how 40 to 60 of florence s male population was indicted for sodomy a capital offense at some point in their lives yet practically all indictments ended with a fine i cannot recommend this book enough the exception was if you fell out of the patronage system if you pissed off your patron suddenly you face a ferocious justice system which will happily dismember you in the town square make an example the message don t commit crimes and anger the duke or this will happen this is one more way the renaissance judicial system then as now operated as a tool to keep elites in power and to keep populations obedient to elites it s a big part of why enlightenment thinkers thought that making standardized sentences one crime one punishment would be equalizing elites abuse post enlightenment judicial systems in many ways too but it s neat to be reminded what the principle of equality under the law hoped to end a world in which the desire to live and love as one wished in safety or read and think as one wished was another chain binding you to obedience i treat the entanglement of patronage and law at much greater length in inventing the renaissance how it bound every layer of society together in a system whose coercive power is a cheering reminder that while today s society has many flaws we have taken some real steps toward equality share galeazzo sanseverino milan s sovereign polycule threesome posted by assistant on february 3 2025 history inventing the renaissance italy 2 time to meet one of my favorite renaissance friends galeazzo sanseverino a mercenary whom contemporary sources describe as the sexiest thing in pants in italy part of the badass polycule threesome that ruled milan in the early 1490s this is part of my series counting down to the release of my new book inventing the renaissance photograph of a stone statue probably depicting galeazzo sanseverino as the model for saint victor the martyr statue in milan cathedral museum galeazzo was the third son of roberto sanseverino d aragona one of the most celebrated mercenary generals of the 1400s who had fathered 25 children before dying heroically in the battle of calliano at the age of 69 relief sculpture tomb slab of roberto sanseverino the armor roberto died in captured as a trophy still survives roberto s eldest son gianfrancesco became a general in the french king s armies the second fracasso the most famous jouster in europe and a favorite of emperor maximilian and practically all his sons were soldiers so as 3 galeazzo had to do a lot to stand out boy did he succeed miniature painting of galeazzo sanseverino in the midst of a procession in milan galeazzo became the favorite lover of ludovico visconti sforza who ruled milan first as regent then as duke until his capture by the french in 1499 he made galeazzo leader of his armies and trusted him with so much power sway in the city that people called him the second duke detail portrait of ludovico sforza from the pala sforzesca portrait possibly of galeazzo sanseverino galeazzo was also a beloved favorite of ludovico s young wife beatrice d este one of the noblest princesses in italy sister of the duke of ferrara whom sources say gave galeazzo access to her private rooms at all hours reveled in his company and played croquet with him every afternoon sketch of beatrice d este by someone in the circle of leonardo da vinci beatrice had loathed her husband s female lovers like cecilia gallerani immortalized in leonardo s famous painting lady with an ermine but loved galeazzo and happily welcomed him as family leonardo s portrait of cecilia gallerani known as lady with an ermine while contemporary sources are very explicit about the openly sexual relationship between ludovico and galahad no sources even written by enemies ever suggested any sexual relationship between galahad and beatrice despite their intimate friendship and close contact portrait probably of beatrice d este by bernardino de conti called the rothschild lady the young duchess was very close with her husband s illegitimate daughter bianca giovanna visconti sforza who was nine when the sixteen year old duchess came to milan in 1491 became her dear companion playmate probable portrait drawing of bianca giovanna by leonardo da vinci to tie the family together ludovico had galeazzo marry young bianca giovanna making his lover his son in law which is what most histories call him accounts describe the very young princess enjoying playing chastely with the husband who treated her more as a stepdaughter than a wife portrait of beatrice d este a detail from the same painting as the earlier portrait of ludovico two sons born to the ducal couple and doted on by galeazzo bianca seemed to secure the family s future and even when the french invaded in 1494 duchess beatrice shown here as a girl with her sister isabella d este visited and charmed the french king securing a brief alliance painting detail of two teenaged girls in renaissance gowns leaning near each other as if one is embracing the other portrait of massimiliano sforza eldest son of beatrice and ludovico portrait of the ducal couple s second son francesco as an infant alas the joy was not to last relations with the french soured and bianca died of illness in 1496 age 14 then beatrice in childbed the year after age 22 ludovico s mourning was so extreme he locked himself away for 2 weeks shaved his head started wearing only black a ragged cloak beatrice d este s tomb detail of her face in profile in the carved tomb soon after amid the wars egged on by many including the ambitious borgias the french seized milan and captured ludovico keeping him in an iron cage in which he used to display his high status prisoners for a great account of this see john gangé s book milan undone galeazzo too was cap...