On 8yh May 1604 Francesco Branciforti, brown and vigorous young prince and his bride, the noble woman Donna Giovanna D'Austria, grand-daughter of the emperor Chrles V, arrived in Militello from Palermo, where they had got married. Their arrival was welcomed by a rich parade that, starting from the castle gate went on through the town streets, adorned with flags and clothes and lit up by torches, among music, theatrical interludes and fireworks.
An event carried out to commemorate those feasts and shows, as narrated by the contemporaries, and that the early death of the prince, poisoned with arsenic, as stated by the Professor Mallegni's studies from Pisa University, will give a sudden stop in 1622, among the mourning and the general regret when "the night wins at the end and the silence triumphes.