Simonetta Botticelli. Romeo and Juliet in Florence city - Stephane Baillon

April 1469, a legendary wedding took place in the city of light in Italy, Florence, the town of the Medici family, protector of artists, poets, humanists and Neoplatonists.
Three friends, three genius artists, Sandro Botticelli 24, Perugino 21, Leonardo Da VInci 17, attend the wedding of the century.
The powerful and wealthy Medici and Vespucci families welcomed the Pope, European princes and kings to their sumptuous palaces decorated by the most talented artists of the Renaissance.

But, on the day of this great wedding, a diplomatic incident occurs.
Sandro Botticelli, the greatest painter of that time, the leading artist of the powerful Medici family, fell in love with the amazingly beautiful Simonetta on her wedding day.

Discover the real characters Romeo and Juliet, Sandro Botticelli and Simonetta Vespucci and their amazing love story that took place not in Verona but in Florence.

A love story so strong and so exceptional that it will cross time and centuries, being written by Masuccio Salernitano in 1478 then taken up by Luigi Da Porto before being taken up again by William Shakespeare in his famous tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" in 1597.
An impossible and forbidden love between a noble princess of amazing beauty who was said to be the most beautiful woman in Italy and a genius artist who did not come from a noble Italian family.
A love story and a moving tragedy that did not end as Shakespeare wrote.

A woman that Sandro loved so much that he sublimated her image and made his love, Simonetta, eternal, with his paintbrushes and his genius. His paintings of Simonetta crossed history and centuries to show us the image of this princess of the hearts that the inhabitants of Florence called: the jewel of Italy.