“Not forever.” – Claire
Tag: period drama
Some sense of the shock Lorenzo felt at the death of his beloved brother can be gleaned by an uncharacteristic five-day gap in his correspondence. The heading over two blank pages in his secretary’s ledger reads, “Here and on the following page must be recorded the letters written about the tumult, when Giuliano de’ Medici was killed in Santa Reparata, may God have mercy on his soul.” The fact that they remained empty speaks volumes about Lorenzo’s state of mind. – Miles J. Unger
I’m empty, Nance. There’s no heart in here, not for man nor woman. Nothing but stone.
period drama meme — (3/5) female characters: charlotte wells (harlots)
People like you don’t get to insult people like me. You get to be eternally grateful. You’ve got quite a way with women. Take a look at this face….a picture of disappointment and disgust. This is the look that every woman you will ever know will come to share. This is what the next forty years of your life will look like.
You bear a heavy burden. The weight of this family, this bank, this Republic. It would be enough to break another man. If you would allow me, I could help to lessen it.
get to know me meme: 7/10 relationships ~ cosimo de’ medici and contessina de’ bardi (medici: masters of florence)
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period drama meme ~ dramas
six key period dramas that won best picture at the academy awards.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Matilda Lutz as Simonetta Vespucci, the muse of Sandro Botticelli in ‘’Medici: The Magnificent’’ tv series (2018) //
Simonetta Vespucci as Venus in two of the Botticelli Paintings
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