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10 favourite female characters in 10 different fandoms -- tagged by @dyingroses
Gaia Weiss as Ippolita Maria Sforza in Medici season 3
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 7: free choice → all the ladies
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 6: one location → Venice
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 5: one look → Bona of Savoy in 2.06
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 4: one episode → 2.08: mass
My wife suspected you... Carlos tried to warn us... my brother even heard rumours of an army... I should have done more.
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 3: one relationship → Lucrezia Donati & Lorenzo de Medici
I have loved Lorenzo since he was sixteen. He was only a boy, but I could already see in him the man that he was becoming. Only I know him. Only I am close to him.
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 2: one male character → Francesco Pazzi
You should have killed me when you had the chance, Medici.
MEDICI APPRECIATION MONTH | day 1: one female character → Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Cut six inches off a leg. A stool is still a stool, yes? But would you sit on it?
"Even though Lorenzo was officially engaged to Clarice [Orsini], it was rumored, not without foundation, that he had organized the tournament in honor of his "platonic love" Lucrezia Donati, wife of Niccolò Ardinghelli. Following the medieval tradition of courtly love, young of Lorenzo's and Giuliano's rank were entitled to express their platonic interest in a lady, even if she were married. In fact, the relationship between Lorenzo and Lucrezia Donati was of long standing. As early as 1465, Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi had commented on the romance in a letter to her son Filippo in Naples. She wrote that, while Niccolò Ardinghelli was abroad, is wife was enjoying life in Florence. Lucrezia Donati, Alessandra says, had ordered a new livrea (a dress in her particular colors) adorned with enormous pearls, to wear to a ball organized by Lorenzo in her honor in the papal hall of Santa Maria Novella. Lorenzo and his companions wore outfits embroidered with pearls that bore Lucrezia's colors.” -- Maria Grazia Pernis, Laurie Adams - Lucrezia Tornabuoni De' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century
there are more ways for a woman to be indispensable than just bearing children.
female awesome meme: 3/10 supporting female characters ~ contessina de’ bardi (medici: masters of florence)
when my family were exiled, my father was consumed by grief. he grew obsessed with returning, and he died before we were allowed to. i watched him waste away in false hope. i can't do that again, piero
female awesome meme: 1/5 non-warrior characters ~ lucrezia tornabuoni (medici: masters of florence)
historical make me choose ♦ @bethwoodvilles asked: contessina de’ bardi or lucrezia tornabuoni
You bear a heavy burden. The weight of this family, this bank, this Republic. It would be enough to break another man. If you would allow me, I could help to lessen it.
get to know me meme: 7/10 relationships ~ cosimo de’ medici and contessina de’ bardi (medici: masters of florence)
