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Author : Ippolita Sforza
Release : 2017
Genre : Naples (Kingdom)
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Book Synopsis Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples by : Ippolita Sforza
Download or read book Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples written by Ippolita Sforza. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ippolita Maria Sforza
Release : 2017-07-11
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples by : Ippolita Maria Sforza
Download or read book Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples written by Ippolita Maria Sforza. This book was released on 2017-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents in translation 100 previously unknown letters of Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–1488), daughter of the Duke of Milan, who was sent at age twenty to marry the son of the infamously brutal King Ferrante of Naples. Sforza’s letters display the adroit diplomacy she used to strengthen the alliance between Milan and Naples, then the two most powerful states in Italy, amid such grave crises as her brother’s assassination in Milan and the Turkish invasion of Otranto. Still, Ippolita lived as a hostage at the Neapolitan court, subject not only to the threat of foreign invasion but also to her husband’s well-known sexual adventures and her father-in-law’s ruthlessness. Soon after Ippolita’s mysterious death in 1488, the fraught Naples-Milan alliance collapsed.
Author : Jeryldene M. Wood
Release : 2020-06-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ippolita Maria Sforza by : Jeryldene M. Wood
Download or read book Ippolita Maria Sforza written by Jeryldene M. Wood. This book was released on 2020-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1455, ten-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza, a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, was betrothed to the seven-year-old crown prince of the Kingdom of Naples as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the two rival states. This first full-scale biography of Ippolita Maria follows her life as it unfolds at the rival courts of Milan and Naples amid a cast of characters whose political intrigues too often provoked assassinations, insurrections, and wars. She was conscious of her duty to preserve peace despite the strains created by her husband's arrogance, her father-in-law's duplicity, and her Milanese brothers' contentiousness. The duchess's intelligence and charm calmed the habitual discord between her families, and in time, her diplomatic savvy and her great friendship with Lorenzo de' Medici of Florence made her a key player in the volatile politics of the peninsula for almost 20 years. Drawing on her letters and contemporary chronicles, memoirs, and texts, this biography offers a rare look into the private life of a Renaissance woman who attempted to preserve a sense of self while coping with a tempestuous marriage, dutifully giving birth to three children, and supervising a large household under trying political circumstances.
Author : Paula Findlen
Release : 2019-10-21
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Renaissance of Letters by : Paula Findlen
Download or read book The Renaissance of Letters written by Paula Findlen. This book was released on 2019-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century, that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters—literary, commercial, political, religious, cultural, social, and military—which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people, inspiring them to see reading, writing, receiving, and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance, including Niccolò Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, and consider the use of letters for others such as merchants and physicians. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History and Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature.
Author : Brian Richardson
Release : 2020-03-26
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 690/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy by : Brian Richardson
Download or read book Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy written by Brian Richardson. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
