The Story of the Pazzi Conspiracy

Semeneta Vespucci considered the most beautiful woman in Italy, quickly became a fixture at court with Lorenzo and Juliano Dimadici. After Semeneta died of illness at just 22 years old, her father-in-law sent Juliano some of her dresses. The artist Bodicelli painted her face on Juliano's banner that day of the joust, and he also snuck her into some of his most famous paintings. Some say Semeneta was immortalized arriving to shore, balanced on a seashell, naked with her hair winding around her,. A goddess in Bodicelli's painting, the birth of Venus.