Following the murder of her husband, Caterina Sforza had to move quickly to cement control of her territories. After successfully seeing off a coup, she fell in love with a handsome young stablehand who would become her secret second husband. However many people were not happy with her relationship with the young man, and events would boil over into violence and treachery. Caterina would face down the Pope and his son, and then spend a year in a dungeon before emerging to end her days in one of the most famous cities and times of history - Renaissance Florence. She met Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Nicolo Machiavelli and is immortalised on the walls of the Sistine Chapel in a painting by Botticelli.
Sources/Further Reading
Lev, Elizabeth: Tigress of Forli, The Fascinating Biography of The Ultimate Renaissance Woman
Jordan, Jonathan and Jordan, Emily Anne: The War Queens, Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield
Fraser, Antonia: Warrior Queens Boadicea’s Chariot
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Sforza
Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caterina-Sforza
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