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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Italian noblewoman Simonetta Vespucci (1453 - 1476) was so famous for her beauty that she earned the nickname La Sans Pareille, "The Unparalleled One"!
Born in Genoa as Simonetta Cattaneo, she moved to Florence after marrying important nobleman Marco Vespucci.

She was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters!
When she died at only 22 years of age she was carried through the city of Florence in an open coffin "so that all might see her beauty, which was even greater in death than it had been in life." Many poets wrote poems grieving over the young beauty's tragic demise!
According to Sforza Bettini, "All the learned Florentines grieved for her, and lamented the bitterness of her death, in prose and verse, seeking to praise her, each according to his faculty." The legend of her beauty lived on.

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Jan 18
Did you know? There is an old legend documented by chroniclers that one of the Teutonic Knights decided to test his commitment to chastity by ordering the prettiest virgin girl they could find to sleep next to him naked for entire year and he didn't touch her. ImageImage
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Jan 16
Yes and medieval universities were important because they set foundations for independent self-regulating institutions of higher learning, and for giving a lot of rights to students. That does not mean they were necessarily superior to non-Western institutions at the time.
No one denies that the likes of Byzantines and Arabs had superior institutions for a long time in the "middle ages", but the Western universities set up foundations for modern universities in terms of institutional concept, and over time became more and more important.
This is why the (Western) middle ages should be understood as a period of creativity, innovation and learning. They started from a very low position as a civilization but expressed a great desire to learn and implement a lot of new ideas that benefited over time.
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Jan 16
A lot of people bringing up "university" of Constantinople "missing" on this map. The term university comes from Latin universitas and applied strictly to Western medieval corporations of students and teachers. Non-Western centers of higher learning were not called 'universitas'.
To use the term university outside of Latin Europe in the middle ages is misleading. That does not mean of course that centers of higher learning did not exist elsewhere, but the term university describes a very specific type of corporate and legal organization in the West.
Of course I won't even comment on the ridiculous notion of "University" of Constantinople missing on a map which doesn't even include the city of Constantinople, but I've had a lot of people bringing it up so I decided to comment on it.
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Jan 12
Many peaceful looking towns in Europe have had very violent medieval past! One of such is the beautiful town of Fermo in Italy. The city was sacked, besieged and conquered many times in history and in renaissance it witnessed violent struggles among important local noblemen! Image
This town of Fermo was very important already in the Roman era. In the 5th century it suffered numerous barbaric invasions including by raids Attila. In the 6th century it witnessed the Gothic War, fell under Byzantine rule and then conquered by Lombards! ImageImage
From the late 10th century on it became a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, the March of Fermo! In the 11th century these lands were under attack by the Normans. The men from Fermo fought against them for the Pope and lost at the famous battle of Civitate in 1055. Image
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The story of Nicholas of Salm and his defense of Vienna against the Ottomans in 1529 is one of the most epic stories of European history yet totally forgotten and untold. Therefore It deserves the most epic battle thread from me so far to present this truly heroic and noble tale!
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The Sack of Rome in 1527 is just another disastrous result of machiavellian thinking of Italian leaders during the Italian Wars. Pope Clement VII thought he could play some clever political games and picked a fight with Emperor Charles V without having an army to back it up.
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