Luisa (Luigia) Capponi Strozzi was a Florentine Renaissance noblewoman, daughter of the prominent banker Filippo the Younger.
[1] She was said to have been insulted by Giovanni Salviati, and close friend of Alessandro de Medici.
After one such event, Salviati was ambushed and wounded at night by unknown assailants.
[2] In 1832, a three volume tragic novel by Giovanni Rosini loosely based on the story was published.
[3] The story was also made by 1847 into an opera with Pietro Martini as librettist and Gualterio Sanelli as composer.