Marietta Corsini
(1481–1553)
BIRTH
March 8, 1481
PLACE
Florence, Italy
DEATH
February 7, 1553
PLACE
Florence, Italy
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Marietta Corsini was the wife of the Florentine statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli. Marietta and Machiavelli had several children, including Bernardo, Ludovico, Piero, Guido, Totto and a daughter, Bartolomea. A letter she wrote to Machiavelli in 1503, while he was on a mission to Rome, survives. Machiavelli's own letters show affection for his family, though he had relationships with other women. She outlived him after his death in 1527.
EARLY LIFE
Marietta Corsini was born in Florence in the late fifteenth century, the daughter of Luigi Corsini, of a respected Florentine family; her exact date of birth is unknown, and her upbringing is undocumented. In 1501 she married Niccolò Machiavelli, who was then secretary of the second chancery of the Florentine Republic, a post that often sent him abroad on diplomatic missions. The marriage was arranged in the usual way between Florentine families, and she brought a dowry to the household.
Marietta and Machiavelli had several children, including Bernardo, Ludovico, Piero, Guido, Totto and a daughter, Bartolomea.
A letter she wrote to Machiavelli in 1503, while he was on a mission to Rome, survives. In it she says she misses him and describes their newborn son. Machiavelli's own letters show affection for his family, though he had relationships with other women.
After the Medici returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli lost his post and retired to the family farm near San Casciano, where Marietta lived with him. She outlived him after his death in 1527.
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Marietta Corsini was the wife of the Florentine statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli. Marietta and Machiavelli had several children, including Bernardo, Ludovico, Piero, Guido, Totto and a daughter, Bartolomea. Machiavelli's own letters show affection for his family, though he had relationships with other women. After the Medici returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli lost his post and retired to the family farm near San Casciano, where Marietta lived with him. A letter she wrote to Machiavelli in 1503, while he was on a mission to Rome, survives. She outlived him after his death in 1527. Marietta Corsini died on Feb 7, 1553, in Florence, Italy. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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