Modena. Laura Martinozzi, mother of the future Duke Francesco II and temporary administrator of the duchy, gives birth to a daughter, hers and Alfonso IV: Maria Beatrice d’Este, who, at the suggestion of the King of France, Louis XIV, would become Queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland, marrying James Stuart, Duke of York. She was the greatest political figure born in the shadow of the Ghrilandina. As a child, she played in what is now Parco XXII Aprile (a few hundred meters from where I live, then Villa Pentetorri).
