Polissena Ruffo [SEP] place of death
Polissena Ruffo
Polissena Ruffo (1400 Cariati - 17 July 1420) was a princess of Calabria. Princess of Rossano, countess of Corigliano and Montalto was the daughter of Carlo Ruffo di Montalto and Ceccarella Sanseverino.
She married Francesco Sforza (founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan) in 1418 as his first wife.
Giovanna d'Acquapendente
Giovanna d'Acquapendente was a 15th-century noblewoman from the Kingdom of Naples. She was known as 'la Colombina' and was the lover of Francesco I Sforza for the seventeen years between the death of his first wife Polissena Ruffo (1420) and his second marriage to Bianca Maria Visconti, daughter of Filippo Maria Visconti (1441). Visconti took Francesco's illegitimate children under her wing after the marriage.
Giovanna lived at the castle in Fermo with her children until Francesco was made lord of the March of