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| Toynbee "Giovanna_2" |
daughter (born c. 1291) of Nino Visconti of Pisa and Beatrice of
Este; in 1296, while still an infant, she was entrusted by Boniface
VIII to the guardianship of the town of Volterra, as the daughter
of a Guelph who had deserved well of the Church, but she was
deprived of all her property by the Ghibellines, and, after living
with her mother at Ferrara and Milan, was married to Rizzardo da
Cammino, lord of Treviso; after the death of her husband in 1312,
she seems to have been reduced to poverty; in 1323, she was living
in Florence, where a grant of money was made her in consideration
of the services of her father; the date of her death is uncertain,
but she was almost certainly dead in 1339.
[See I. Del Lungo,
DtD, pp. 313-341.] Her marriage to Rizzardo da Cammino is
mentioned by Sacchetti, who refers
(Nov. xv) to D.'s introduction of her into the
D.C. According to Buti, she had no children and died
before her mother, through whose marriage to Galeazzo Visconti of
Milan the possessions of the Pisan Visconti passed into the hands
of the Visconti of Milan.
Nino Visconti (in Ante-Purgatory) begs D. to ask his daughter to
pray for him, and laments that her mother, who had married
again, no longer cares for him,
[Purg. viii. 70-73].
[Beatrice_4:
[Cammino, Riccardo da:
Nino_2.]
©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee
(1968) by permission of Oxford University Press