18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Medici digression

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hee! Our shiny things cahn. :) This is the Florentino, the gem whose web page I was looking at. According to the allegations of modern-day Lorenzo de' Medici that I pasted up-thread:

When Maria Theresa became Empress of Austria, she had a large part of the donation transported to Vienna, including the Florentino, the famous Medici diamond, which was considered the largest in the world at the time. This diamond later mysteriously disappeared and was never heard of again.

Re: Medici digression

[cahn]

Ah, excellent :D But boo that it was neve rheard from again ;)