Madame Guillotine
Kill them all if they won't eat cake.
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Isabella de’ Medici, who was murdered by her husband in July 1576.
Isabella Romola de’ Medici was born on 31st August 1542 and was one of the numerous progeny of Cosimo and his sloe eyed Spanish wife, Eleonora di Toledo whose Madonna like grave beauty of course the subject of some of Bronzino’s most sumptuous works. Being born in 1542 made Isabella a contemporary of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was born in December of that year as well as her distant cousins, the children of Catherine de’ Medici and Henri II.
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