Ugolino Palazzi

After several years of thwarted attempts to leave Brescia for Venice, LMWM succeeded, in the face of actual physical threat from Palazzi , in getting away.

Kept at the town of Brescia initially by a severe fever, she was nursed by Ugolino Palazzi 's mother, Countess Giuliana Palazzi . She then bought from Palazzi a house in the village of Gottolengo...

This unusual autobiographical text was designed as the foundation of a court case against Count Ugolino Palazzi . The surviving manuscript is not in Montagu's own hand.

She was making the dangerous journey from Avignon through war-ravaged North Italy, hoping to reach Venice. She survived this incident partly because of the escort provided by Count Ugolino Palazzi .

Palazzi had accompanied her from Lovere to Gottolengo a couple of months earlier, and effectively prevented her from going further. She now had a hired carriage broken and her journey interrupted by a thug with...

She remarked with some pride on her hope of doubling her farming capital. She received a quarterly allowance all this time from her husband, and lived frugally except for her habit of acquiring property. It...