Filippo Maria Visconti

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Filippo Maria Visconti on a medal from Pisanello

Filippo Maria Visconti (born September 23, 1392 ; † August 13, 1447 ) from the Visconti family was the younger son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti .

Nominally regent of Pavia since 1402 , he succeeded his cruel brother Giovanni Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan in 1412 . Similarly, cruel and beyond extremely sensitive in terms of his own ugliness, he was not a great politician and confined himself to such a powerful condottieri as Francesco Bussone as Carmagnola , Niccolò Piccinino and Francesco Sforza , the Lombardy to be governed. By marrying Beatrice di Tenda , the unfortunate widow of the condottiere Facino Cane de Casale , who had served his brother, he received nearly half a million florins and Facino's troops.

The wedding with Beatrice took place in 1412. She was the daughter of Wilhelm Lascaris di Ventimiglia , Count of Tenda, whose Ligurian family descended in female lines from the deposed Byzantine imperial family of the Laskarids . In 1418 Beatrice was arrested on charges of adultery with Michele Orombelli and beheaded in Binasco Castle. Her tragic fate was dealt with in the opera Beatrice di Tenda by Vincenzo Bellini in 1833 . Filippo Maria married Maria von Savoyen († February 1479), the daughter of Duke Amadeus VIII, on December 2, 1427. Both marriages remained childless. The mother of his illegitimate daughter Bianca Maria (* around 1424 - 23 October 1468) was Agnes del Maino († after 13 August 1447), daughter of Ambrosio del Maino .

Filippo Maria Visconti died in 1447 as the last Visconti in the male line. He was followed in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian republic , in 1450 by Francesco Sforza, who married Filippo Maria's daughter Bianca Maria on October 25, 1441 (see Sforza ).

Filippo Maria Visconti became better known in modern times through his interest in luxurious playing cards than through his politically not insignificant role in the early Renaissance . He presumably commissioned a particularly expensive set of cards, the unbelievable sum of 1,500 ducats is called. This (not preserved) set of cards probably belonged to the group of Visconti-Sforza-Trionfi cards , an early form of tarot cards .

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predecessor Office successor
Giovanni Maria Visconti Duke of Milan
1412–1447 		Francesco I. Sforza
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SURNAME Visconti, Filippo Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent of Pavia, Duke of Milan
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1392
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1447