Born into a noble family and brought up with great severity in anticipation of a wealthy marriage of convenience as was the custom in those days, she fell in love instead with Pietro Bonaventuri a young Florentine who held a modest banking position in Venice for the Banco dei Salviati. When she realised she was pregnant, she decided to elope with him, taking money and jewellery stolen from her father's house. After regularising their union, the two young people settled in Florence. The Venetian government protested to the Florentine government about the theft, butCosimo de' Medici, lord of Flo
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