Our apartment on Piazza Signoria boasts so much history that we could not choose a simple name. So we have dedicated it to a woman who was very connected to Florence in the past: Leonora Álvarez de Toledo y Colonna known as “Dianora.”
After the discovery of the letter Pietro was furious. He felt betrayed and dishonored. So he decided to get rid of his useless wife once and for all. He saw her as an obstacle to his dissolute life and a source of infamy.
So it was that one day Pietro decided to take Dianora out of town to their villa in the country. It was there that Pietro choked his wife to death with his own hands.
A few days later another crime was committed in the Medici family: the murder of Isabella de’ Medici, Dianora’s sister-in-law. Sir Bernardo Antinori, on the other hand, died in prison after being arrested under unspecified circumstances. Dianora’s son Cosimo died of illness a month after his mother’s murder.
It is because of this history that the apartment was named after Dianora. Now it is also easy to guess why the apartment has all these red details: they are an ode to the passion and death of this wonderful woman.
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