Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples – Letters and Orations
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0866985743
ISBN-13
9780866985741
Publisher
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Imprint
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 11th, 2017
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 16.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: general
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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.
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