Luisa Strozzi

Luisa (Luigia) Capponi Strozzi was a Florentine Renaissance noblewoman, daughter of the prominent banker Filippo the Younger.

She was said to have been insulted by Giovanni Salviati, and close friend of Alessandro de Medici. After one such event, Salviati was ambushed and wounded at night by unknown assailants. Suspicion fell on the Strozzi, but no evidence was amassed.

Rebuffing his advances and those of the Duke, she was forced to flee Florence. It is said she was poisoned by agents of the Duke. In 1832, a three volume tragic novel by Giovanni Rossini loosely based on the story was published.

The story was also made by 1847 into an opera with Pietro Martini as librettist and Gualterio Sanelli as composer.