Napoleons Step Mother ?
The Pope's Daughter !
The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes.
Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal correspondence, as well as diaries, account books, and chronicles of Renaissance Rome, Murphy skillfully weaves a compelling portrait of this remarkable woman. Felice della Rovere was to witness Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, watch her father Pope Julius II lay the foundation stone for the new Saint Peter's, and see herself immortalized by Raphael in his Vatican frescos.
With her marriage to Gian Giordano Orsini--arranged, though not attended, by her father the Pope--she came to possess great wealth and power, assetswhich she turned to her advantage. While her father lived, Felice exercised much influence in the affairs of Rome--even negotiating for peace with the Queen of France--and after his death, Felice persevered, making allies of the cardinals and clerics of St. Peter's and maintaining her control of theOrsini land through tenacity, ingenuity, and carefully cultivated political savvy. She survived the Sack of Rome in 1527, but her greatest enemy proved to be her own stepson Napoleone.
The rivalry between him and her son Girolamo had a sudden and violent end, and brought her perilously close to
losing everything she had spent her life acquiring.
With a marvelous cast of characters, this is a spellbinding biography set against the brilliant backdrop of Renaissance Rome.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
2006-10-11 07:50:08 · 6 answers · asked by Caesar J. B. Squitti 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
How do you make that connection? Felice della Rovere lived far too many years before Napoleon (1769-1821). His mother was Letizia (Ramolino) (1750-1836); she married Carlo Buonaparte and they had 13 children. She was a formidable lady and very strict, and Napoleon later named her "Madame Mere".
Napoleon's father, Carlo, died in 1785 aged 39 and didn't, as far as I know, have any other wives.
I don't see any stepmother from the 1500s.
2006-10-11 09:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As cool as was her life, her father also led quite an adventurous life. He dodged multiple assignation attempts, and leveled a few cities. Some even cite him as the person who introduced Napoleon to strategy, as many of Napoleon's siege tactics bear similar markings of those his Grandfather employed. However, Gramps would have been pissed at his grandson for his foreign occupation of Italy.
2006-10-11 08:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bonaparte Napoleon?? Interesting that all that you listed that she did was about 200 years before he lived.
2006-10-11 08:18:32 · answer #3 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not really but it could or couldn't be true.
2006-10-11 07:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by tavarus_holloway 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't believe it. i would need to research this myself
2006-10-11 07:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by jimbeach37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
awesome fact to know. maybe one day ill be able to whip it out. thanks for sharing :)
2006-10-11 07:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by chikka 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋