Raphael-love of the daughter of bakery boss

Apr 26
08:39

2013

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The super golden bachelor Raphael was an amorous man. The cyclones he lifted up in Roman made many royal offices wanted him to be their own proud son-in-low. His close friend, Bernardo Cardinal kept constantly advising him to marry and contributed great efforts to lead his marriage of his niece, Maria.

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The super golden bachelor Raphael was an amorous man.  The cyclones he lifted up in Roman made many royal offices wanted him to be their own proud son-in-low. His close friend,Raphael-love of the daughter of bakery boss Articles Bernardo Cardinal kept constantly advising him to marry and contributed great efforts to lead his marriage of his niece, Maria. 
 In 1514, the 31 years old Raphael fulfilled his obligations to engage with Maria, but he often secretly dated with several lovers and aristocratic ladies. Who on earth can capture the heart of this amorous libertine?  Let’s rewind the time five or six years ago before he married.  “What a beautiful day!” Raphael walked briskly on the stone roads and looked at the blue sky inadvertently.  It was a common day as usual. He passed through the downtown area of Rome to the north of a friend’s villa to making murals. He was about to pick up the pace then suddenly realized that, the goddess many artists talked just lived on the 20th Lotia street, on the Jeber riverside.
   “Just go and sneak a peek at her”, he said to himself. So he returned in front of a bakery on the road, looked into the depths of the lush green courtyard through a low wall. A beautiful young girl was sitting on the fountain and putting her feet into the cool water.   The shrewd eyes and innocent demeanors made Raphael fall in love with her uncontrollably.  She was a baker’s daughter – Fornarina.  Only just a glimpse but made Raphael missed her all the time. However, what made Raphael could not leave her was that her heart was as pure as her appearance. Just as Vasary said in the “Family of fine arts”, one time he was unable to fully concentrate on his work because of obsessed with her and by the help of his friend, he arranged her in the villa so he can solve the problem. 
 For the sake of her or the promise that Pope wanted to seal him as cardinal, he procrastinated the date of wedding once and again. And his finance unexpectedly died with a broken heart because of rejected again and again.   The veiled woman, Bella and Madonna on chair were all seemed taking her as model. Especially on the model’s arm of “Fornarina”, the bracelet with the name of Raphael seemed like Raphael meant to declare to the world that “She is my lover.”  However, god did not bless this couple.  It was said that after one pleasure, Raphael had a high fever. Because he never spoke about his excess lewdnesses so the doctor thought he had sunstroke and did bloodletting for him but instead made him dying.  Fornarina was desired to approach the side of him but had been hindered.
 The messenger of the Pope saw her when he came to do the last confession and said “She is not his official wife” and refused her to enter the room.  Raphael looked at her affectionately and made a will after she left. He left her parts of possessions in order to help her to spend the rest of her life and died after the end of short shrift.  Fornarina threw herself on the body and burst into bitter tears when the funeral was holding but was expelled from the funeral procession and severely reprimanded that she killed Raphael. Therefore she could not suppress the sadness on the verge of crazy. After the enlightenments of the cardinal, she decided to bury this affair and went to the monastery as a nun as Raphael’s widow.  The one who was buried beside the tomb of Raphael was not Fornarina but Maria. After the death of Raphael, people moved the tombs of them together. So where did the deep love between Raphael and Fornarina belong to? Maybe it was heaven on earth.