Galeazzo Sforza

Role: predecessor of Lodovico Sforza · First appears: Richard III 25

Life events

c. 1485 · Galeazzo Sforza died, with Italy judging that poison and violence caused his death.(Richard III 25)
- “It was published that the death of Galeas (his late predecessor) happened by immoderate cohabitation, but the vniuersall iudgment of Italie was, that he died not of infirmities naturall, nor by incontinencie, but by poison and violent compulsion.”

with Lodovico Sforza (Galeazzo Sforza is identified as Lodovico Sforza's late predecessor.) “At whom we will end, with a comparison of the like practise in Lodowike Sforce, aspiring to the dukedome of Millane, the name, armes and title wherof he tooke vpon him, hauing secretlie protested before, that he receiued them as apperteining to him by the inuestiture of the king of Romans. It was published that the death of Galeas (his late predecessor)”
with Theodor de Pavia (Theodor de Pavia is identified as a physician attending the dying predecessor.) “Wherof Theodor de Pauia, one of the physicians, assisting when the king visited him, assured the king to sée most apparant and manifest signes”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.