2. BIANCA, married to Guidantonio or Guidaccio Manfredi,
Lord of Faenza and Imola, who had been brought up at her
father's court.
3. VIOLANTE, who was born in 1430, and at twelve years of
age, married Domenico Malatesta Novello, Lord of Cesena. She
was remarkable alike for talent and beauty; and her husband,
who died childless in 1465, left a fine monument of his
literary tastes, in the public library which remains in that
city.
4. AGNESINA, born in 1431, who in 1445 married Alessandro
Gonzaga, Lord of Castiglione, a younger son of the first
Marquis of Mantua.
5. BRIGIDA SUEVA.[46]
[Footnote 46: Regarding this daughter, who was born in 1428, we have
some curious particulars to offer. After her father's death, she was
carried to Rome, to be educated by her uncles the Colonna. There she
married Alessandro Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, in 1448, an alliance rather
of policy than of affection, and was received in his capital with all
demonstrations of joy by her new subjects. Her husband, fully occupied
with war and business, soon after set off for Lombardy: and in sooth
her charms are described, even by her enthusiastic eulogists, as very
homely, and little adapted to fix the roving tastes of her lord, whose
dissolute and brutal conduct exceeded even the licence of that age.
After patient endurance of his outrages during twelve years, she fled
to the convent of Corpus Domini, of the Franciscan order of Sta.
Chiara, at Pesaro, which she enriched with 7500 ducats out of her
dower. That she did not leave behind all mundane tastes may be
concluded from a curious inventory of paraphernalia which she took
into the cloister, printed by the Abbé Olivieri from the original in
her own hand, and contained in II. of our Appendix.[*B]
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