CATERINA SFORZA, IL CUORE E LA SPADA

Caterina Sforza (1463 - 1509), exerted political influence but, unlike other contemporary women, she achieved it through battles, succeeding on several occasions to achieve important results. Like, for example, when she wanted to avenge the death of his first two husbands or when she conquered Castel Sant’Angelo on the death of Pope Sixtus IV (1484). Catherine was only 21 years old in those days, she will live to be only 46 years old, but she lived to the fullest: three weddings, seven children, clashes and battles, and a “hobby”: herbal medicine, natural medicine and beauty treatments. The more than 400 his recipes, fruit of personal searches of Alchemy, came up to us. In her story the protagonists of the late 400’s intertwine: the Sforzas (she was the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria), the Riarios (the family of Sixtus IV), the Borgias and the Medici. Her third husband was Giovanni Il Popolano, cousin of the Lorenzo il Magnifico: their son was Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, the main captain of ventura of the fifteenth century, and the parent branch of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany).

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