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Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples – Letters and Orations
Engelsk Paperback
Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples – Letters and Orations
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
230
ISBN-13:
9780866985741
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0866985743
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Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2017
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2017