RENAISSANCE GOSSIP

[operafantomet]

AVVISO FROM VENICE. Having read letters from Rome, Bartoli reports that there are rumors that Pope Pius V will issue a bull making adultery a capital offense for both men and women. Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, is going to Florence to visit his wife, Isabella di Cosimo de' Medici-Orsini, who is ill with smallpox. Count Orso Orsini

Comments

[belfebe]

OMG! They had Facebook in period!

Seriously, thank you for posting this. :-)

[operafantomet]

Ha-ha, so true! The amount of gossip in the Medici archive is amazing. They reported what people ate, what mood they were in, what clothes they wore and all the stuff we do on Facebook today. We think we've invented the wheel once again, but.... neeh.