Through the Vespucci family Simonetta was discovered by Sandro Botticelli and other prominent painters upon arriving in Florence. Lorenzo permitted the Vespucci wedding to be held at the palazzo in Via Larga, and held the wedding reception at their lavish Villa di Careggi. The Medici brothers, Lorenzo and Giuliano took an instant liking towards her. Simonetta was instantly popular at the Florentine court. Simonetta and Marco were married in Florence. Her parents also knew the marriage would be advantageous because Marco's family was well connected in Florence, especially to the Medici family. Marco was accepted by Simonetta's father, and he was very much in love with her, so the marriage was logical. Marco had been sent to Genoa by his father, Piero, to study at the Banco di San Giorgio. They met in April 1469 she was with her parents at the church of San Torpete when she met Marco the doge Piero il Fregoso and much of the Genoese nobility were present. There, like Venus, she was born among the waves."Īt age fifteen or sixteen she married Marco Vespucci, son of Piero, who was a distant cousin of the famous Florentine explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. The poet Poliziano wrote that her home was "in that stern Ligurian district up above the seacoast, where angry Neptune beats against the rocks. Her exact birthplace is uncertain: possibly Genoa, or possibly the villages of Fezzano or Portovenere. Her father was a Genoese nobleman named Gaspare Cattaneo Della Volta, and her mother was his wife, Cattocchia Spinola de Candia. She was born as Simonetta Cattaneo circa 1453 in Liguria. Countless poems and canvasses by many other painters were also created in her honor. She is depicted in Piero di Cosimo's paintings Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, in which she is portrayed as Cleopatra with an asp around her neck, and The Death of Procris. She was renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age - certainly of the city of Florence. She also is alleged to have been the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent's younger brother. 1453 – 26 April 1476) was the Genoese wife of the Italian nobleman Marco Vespucci of Florence. Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci, nicknamed la bella Simonetta (ca.
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