this will be the only comment tonight (and for a few more days) because limited internet for a bit, I still owe a bunch of comments I know, but it has been bugging me all week that I left this writeup hanging halfway through because I didn't have time to comment on part *2* *facepalm*
Cruelty to animals was also punished in a manner we might emulate
lol, tell us how you really feel, Acton!
She bathed in the nude. (When Cosimo complained about this to Louis via envoy, Louis basically reacted with a shrug.)
Okay, I saw downstream that you had elaborated further on this, but I was definitely envisioning Cosimo going "beating her servants... eh whatever. But bathing in the nude?? CAN'T BE HAVING WITH THAT."
Marguerite Louise threatened to kill her with a hatchet and a pistol.
Heh, I'm sensing a theme: no one can tell Marguerite Louise what to do! :D
Marguerite Louise threw herself into her last transformation into a sincere reformer, overhauled the convent, kicked out the Abess and the wayward nuns and next threw herself into charity.
I am a fan! (Also: I was surprised by this plot twist, but i guess it does follow the theme!)
A very nice girl, as it happened, Violante of Bavaria, who was devoted him. Alas, Ferdinando found her dull and didn't requite her feelings. (Stop me if this sounds familiar.)
OMG. It does indeed sound familiar :P It's like there's not just an abusive playbook, but an abusive nobility playbook...
drinking himself to death and staring up to the stars (he did that, it was a thing).
Aw man :(
He's so drunk all the time that he throws up out of his chaise when carried through Florence, so he rarely is. At meals he's not better - vomiting into his napkin, wiping his mouth with his periwig.
Okay, I know much less about alcohol than the average person for obvious reasons, and I know that vomiting hangovers are a thing of course, but is it really a thing for drunks to throw up *that* much? That is to say, this kiiinda makes me wonder if he was suffering from some other problem that the alcohol was self-medication for.
But: he immediately gets rid of the anti-Jewish and anti-Protestant laws his father had made, threw out corrupt churchmen from the government, and revoked the banishment of "new" (i.e. Galilelean) ideas from the university of Pisa. He also separated Medici property from state property, being aware that despite his efforts, neither his sister nor Don Carlos would succeed him, and this way his sister could at least inherit the family posessions.
That is really cool and I am a fan of that, at least. (This is also why I thought maybe the alcoholism was at least partially self-medication; it sounds like he actually got some things done in between bouts of vomiting or drunkenness or whatever.)
Re: Harold Acton: Last of the Medici 2: This is the end, my friend...
Cruelty to animals was also punished in a manner we might emulate
lol, tell us how you really feel, Acton!
She bathed in the nude. (When Cosimo complained about this to Louis via envoy, Louis basically reacted with a shrug.)
Okay, I saw downstream that you had elaborated further on this, but I was definitely envisioning Cosimo going "beating her servants... eh whatever. But bathing in the nude?? CAN'T BE HAVING WITH THAT."
Marguerite Louise threatened to kill her with a hatchet and a pistol.
Heh, I'm sensing a theme: no one can tell Marguerite Louise what to do! :D
Marguerite Louise threw herself into her last transformation into a sincere reformer, overhauled the convent, kicked out the Abess and the wayward nuns and next threw herself into charity.
I am a fan! (Also: I was surprised by this plot twist, but i guess it does follow the theme!)
A very nice girl, as it happened, Violante of Bavaria, who was devoted him. Alas, Ferdinando found her dull and didn't requite her feelings. (Stop me if this sounds familiar.)
OMG. It does indeed sound familiar :P It's like there's not just an abusive playbook, but an abusive nobility playbook...
drinking himself to death and staring up to the stars (he did that, it was a thing).
Aw man :(
He's so drunk all the time that he throws up out of his chaise when carried through Florence, so he rarely is. At meals he's not better - vomiting into his napkin, wiping his mouth with his periwig.
Okay, I know much less about alcohol than the average person for obvious reasons, and I know that vomiting hangovers are a thing of course, but is it really a thing for drunks to throw up *that* much? That is to say, this kiiinda makes me wonder if he was suffering from some other problem that the alcohol was self-medication for.
But: he immediately gets rid of the anti-Jewish and anti-Protestant laws his father had made, threw out corrupt churchmen from the government, and revoked the banishment of "new" (i.e. Galilelean) ideas from the university of Pisa. He also separated Medici property from state property, being aware that despite his efforts, neither his sister nor Don Carlos would succeed him, and this way his sister could at least inherit the family posessions.
That is really cool and I am a fan of that, at least. (This is also why I thought maybe the alcoholism was at least partially self-medication; it sounds like he actually got some things done in between bouts of vomiting or drunkenness or whatever.)
/back next week!