The death of Isabella de’ Medici, favourite daughter of Cosimo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was as squalid as her life had been glittering. She was strangled in a particularly unpleasant and elaborate way ...
She's one of the many women I've come across during my research into elite women's experiences of confinement across 11th to 13th-century medieval Europe. As a child, the princess and her brother ...