Filippo Maria Visconti

Filippo Maria Visconti (* September 23, 1392; † August 13, 1447 ) from the Visconti family was the younger son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti.

Since 1402 he was nominally regent of Pavia, in 1412 followed his cruel brother Giovanni Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan. As cruel and beyond extremely sensitive with respect to its own ugliness, he was never a great politician, confined himself to be so powerful condottieri Francesco BUSSONE as Carmagnola, Niccolò and Niccolo Francesco Sforza rule the Lombardy. His marriage to Beatrice di Tenda, the unfortunate widow of Condottiere Facino Cane de Casale, who had served his brother, he received nearly half a million florins. He died in 1447, the last Visconti in the male line; had married (see Sforza ) and was succeeded in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian Republic, 1450 Francesco Sforza, of the October 25, 1441 his illegitimate daughter Bianca Maria ( † October 23, 1468 * 1424 ).

Filippo Maria was married since 1412 with Beatrice di Tenda († 1418 ), daughter of Count William of Tenda from the exiled Byzantine Laskaris family, and since the December 2, 1427 by Maria of Savoy († February 1479 ), daughter of the Duke Amadeus VIII. , the mother of his daughter Bianca Maria del Maino was Agnes ( † after August 13, 1447 ), daughter of Ambrosio del Maino.

Through his interest in luxury playing cards was Filippo Maria Visconti in modern times more famous than its politically significant role in the early Renaissance. He "invented" the Tarot cards, that is, a very early form of them.

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