#clarice orisini

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On Sunday morning, June 4, Clarice, dressed in a white, hooded gown sparkling with gold thread and riding Lorenzo's horse Falsamico, proceeded from the Alessandri palace to the Via Larga, accompanied by trumpeters and fifers along with thirty matrons representing the leading families of Florence. As she dismounted before the palace, decorated with tapestries and awnings displaying the Medici and Orsini crests, a live olive tree was hoisted into the palace through a second-story window to serve during the feast as a symbol of abundance and fertility.

Magnifico: The brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de’ Medici, by Miles J. Unger

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In August 1470, Clarice gave birth to their first child, Lucrezia, a happy event that gave Lorenzo a certain gravitas in the eyes of his fellow citizens. For Florentines, nothing defined a mar of substance as surely as fathering a child in wedlock.

Magnifico: The brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de’ Medici, by Miles J. Unger

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