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Simonetta Vespucci

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Also known as Simonetta Januensis Vespucci, Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci

Italian noblewoman

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Born
Simonetta Cattaneo , c. 1453 , Genoa or Portovenere , Republic of Genoa
Died
26 April 1476 (1476-04-26) (aged 22–23), Florence , Republic of Florence
Spouse
Marco Vespucci ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1469 ) ​
Parents
Gaspare Cattaneo della Volta (father) Caterina Violante "Cattocchia" Spinola (mother)
Relatives
Amerigo Vespucci (cousin-in-law)

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Encyclopedic overview

Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating.

Biography

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