Isotta degli Atti
Isotta degli Atti (born 1432 or 1433 in Rimini ; died July 9, 1474 ) was an Italian during the Renaissance , the wife of Prince Sigismondo Malatesta .
Life
Isotta was born in Rimini as the daughter of the wealthy wool merchant and banker Francesco degli Atti. Sigismondo Malatesta, Prince of Rimini, noticed her at the age of 12 or 13. Their first son, Giovanni, was born around 1447, but died soon after and was buried in the Tempio Malatestiano . The affair did not become known until 1449, when Malatesta's second wife Polissena died. In 1456 the couple married.
During the time when Malatesta was excommunicated by Pope Pius II , or when he was out of the country as a condottiere , she acted as the administrator of the small state. The clever and art-loving woman pushed ahead with the renovation of the Francis Church (Tempio Malatestiano). Numerous poems were written in her honor, she was modeled by Antonio Pisanello and portrayed by Piero della Francesca and Gentile da Fabriano . Posterity saw her as a poet herself until it turned out that she could not write .
When her husband died in 1468, she took over the reign of their son Sallustio Malatesta. He was murdered in 1469 by his half-brother Roberto, who also took over the government. Isotta degli Atti died a few years later and was buried in the church she had expanded.
Individual evidence
- ^ Augusto Campana: Atti, Isotta degli In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 4 (1962)
- ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 241.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Atti, Isotta degli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Atti, Isotta da Rimini |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian princess during the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1432 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rimini |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1474 |