262:. In its confines, the captors tortured the prisoners. The handmaidens confessed to having seen the duchess with Orombelli sitting on the bed playing the lute. The torturers forced Orombelli into confession of adultery. Although Beatrice herself received twenty-four lashes, she denied any guilt to her confessor. A jurist, Gasparino de' Grassi Castiglione, proclaimed Beatrice, the troubadour, and the handmaidens all guilty of adultery or its complicity, and sentenced them to death. Her captors beheaded Beatrice in the courtyard on 13 September 1418, accompanied in death by her two maids and the young troubadour.
176:. Historians hypothesized that she was the daughter of Count Antonio of Tenda by Margherita del Carretto of Finale, or of Count Guglielmo Pietro of Tenda, or of Count Pietro Balbo II of Tenda, and even suggested identifying her with Pietro Balbo's daughter Caterina, who married on 5 September 1403, supposedly changing her name to Beatrice since her husband hated the name Caterina. However, relatively recently analyzed primary documents have revealed that Beatrice was actually the daughter of
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Unable to denounce his wife publicly, he effected a scheme common among the nobility of the time, that of adultery. Among those of the
Duchess Beatrice's household was a young troubadour and friend, Michele Orombelli, who often entertained the lady with lute and song. To avoid any possibility of an
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However, despite the wealth, territory, and military strength that she had brought to him, Filippo grew averse to
Beatrice, perhaps because of jealousy of her late husband's reputation, or her own political power, or her greater age, or that she bore no children, or his favoring of his mistress, the
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Beatrice was born at an uncertain date probably in the 1370s (suggested dates include 1370 or 1372). Referred to simply as
Beatrice in most sources from her time and shortly after, she was first identified as "Beatrice Tenda" by Bernardino Corio in his Milanese history first published in 1503. She
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According to many accounts, Beatrice appears as an intelligent woman who concerned herself in the current affairs of state. Her reputation for honesty and modesty made her a martyr in the eyes of many. Her story inspired many writers. A book written by
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Duchess, on 23 August 1418 he had the doors of Milan closed until lunchtime, and had the troubadour, the Duchess, and two of her handmaidens spirited away to the
334:, an Augustinian friar and Italian humanist, chronicled that Beatrice was already advanced in years, and could no longer attract her husband, nor offer the hope of children.
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794:] (in Italian). Milano: Franco Angeli. pp. 105–121.
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