Arte - Vol. 9 Ch. 44 - A Hint Of An Opportunity, Part 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Lamer5799]

Arte is going to do a religious painting? She grew up so fast.

 

[ilikepi31415]

Some historical context for this chapter from a tiny bit of digging.
We know it's about 1520 as Leonardo Da Vinci's death was mentioned in chapter 38.

Cardinal Silvio Passerini was a Medici loyalist and Cardinal in Florence at around this time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Passerini

The "Mad Queen" is likely Joanna of Castille. Queen of Spain (as a unified Aragon and Castille as the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella) and Naples (Basically southern Italy as it was under personal union at the time). She purportedly went mad after her husband died and was imprisoned for decades by her son Charles I (Also Charles V of the HRE) until her death in 1555.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_of_Castile

Considering she refers to others as "these adults" and judging by the use of the nickname Irene, the traveling noble is likely Joanna's daughter Catherine (Catherine -> Erine -> Irene I know it's flimsy but of Joanna's daughters she fits the best) There's no record of any of Joanna's daughters going on prolonged diplomatic trips in their youth, at least not from a quick glance, but Catherine is the only of Joanna's daughters that would have been unmarried at the time and thus able to make a trip like this. Furthermore she fits the perceived age of the character (14-15 )and was known for gathering Female scholars as courtiers later in life during her time as queen of Portugal, which would fit in with Arte's themes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Austria,_Queen_of_Portugal

So yeah, she would be an appropriately "big fish" to elicit such a response from the cardinal. You normally wouldn't have a Hapsburg showing up in your parts in the 1500s unless something was getting inherited or there was some inbreeding to do. It's nice to see the author pull figures more directly from history.

 

[nicenicencie]

I can tell, this one gonna be a hella arc.

 

[Kaeos999]

Hell yes LETSS GGOOOOOOO NEW ARC

 

[Neeks]

thanks for the translation!!

 

[zilentworld]

@ilikepi31415
thats a very interesting history. im already happy with the story as is but to actually have to make sense on real historical events make it more interesting

 

[ifalangaria]

I've never been so excited for a new arc in a manga!

 

[LiliumDragomir]

Thanks for the update!

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

@ilikepi31415
Nice details, thanks.

 

[GruntZone360]

Thank you!!!

 

[themoobz]

strom brewing

 

[Hitomi_Higurashi]

Thank you for the translation! And thank you for the info, @ilikepi31415!

 

[mokonaarappa]

thank you for the chapter

 

[AlmondMagnum]

@Lamer5799
The Cardinal probably wants her to paint a portrait of "Irene" and use that to pry into what she's doing doing in Florence.

 

[SandiKurniaP]

I'm pretty sure that cardinal is a real historical character. Dunno about the girl, though I recall there was a mad queen in Spain during roughly the same time frame.

 

[Narf]

@ilikepi31415
Thank you for the interesting historical tidbits.

And thanks for the new chapter. Very interesting as usual.

 

[Markgraf]

@AlmondMagnum Yeah, I get the feeling that the cardinal wants Arte to do some spying, which is going to blow up in his face but help Arte meet an influential woman with tangible power.

 

[Eiry]

Tyvm for the update ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

 

[Panino]

@ilikepi31415 She may be Queen of Portugal?
MY QUEEN!