☝🏿 🍐 🔳 Girl, with the keys to the heart of the Pope

Sex of the Pope with a minor, Florentine Spitz with a horn on his forehead, paintings by Raphael, Parma ham, dominant stepmother and adultery in marriage, what do they have in common? Have a seat. Today you are with ScientaeVulgaris and a bit of the crazy Middle Ages, forked on the bread of my story.

Actually, in fact, we will talk about Julia Farnese. In 1474, in one small town - Canino, half a day's journey by horse from the eternal city - Rome, not as close to the beach as we would like, but not so far away, if, again, you have a horse. In a stone fortress - Capodimonte, on a hill near Lake Bolsena, a girl of incredible beauty was born, with an angelic face and the eyes of innocence itself. This event was attended by the family of Pier Luigi Farnese.

Pierre was a military man to the very marrow of his bones, in God knows what generation. His father - Farnese Ranuccio (1390-1450) was an honorary Roman senator, captain of the army of the Papal State and a famous condottieri. The thing is that in the era of the 14-16 centuries something unimaginable was happening in Europe. City-states, city-communes, city-non-rhizine, dozens of small duchies, counties and mini-states fought with each other. The wars were fought by mercenary forces and sometimes resembled an endless championship. The mundial went with fake and contractual matches, and sometimes turned into a real massacre, the world was ruled by money given to mercenaries. So a person who gathered a detachment and entered into a contract of employment with any city - "condottu", became a condottieri.To become a successful condottieri, one had to abide by the terms of the contract and be an equally lucky asshole and a skillful general. To be successful also meant to be alive, which means winning victories for a long time or running away from defeat, even if literally.

Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Marquis of Vigevano. Marshal of France since 1499 Hood. Raymond Monvoisin.