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1. This particularly artistically sophisticated book of hours was commissioned by Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446–1484) 2. Jean Bourdichon (1457/59–1521), one of the most important artists of the Early French Renaissance, created this gem
Ippolita Maria Sforza was an Italian noblewoman, a member of the Sforza family. She was the wife of Alfonso II of Naples. Ippolita was a former lover of Lorenzo the Magnificent. She was approached by Lorenzo for help in convincing Ferrante, King of Naples, to withdraw his forces from the siege of Florence. With her husband Prince Alfonso away at Florence, Ippolita agreed to assist Lorenzo ...
Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–48) was a tremendously interesting Renaissance woman writer whose rich political life, as illustrated by her letters and Latin orations, deserves far more attention than it has received. The daughter of the beleaguered but astute Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza (1401–66), and
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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 ...
Ippolita was born in 1446, the daughter of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza, the 4th duke of Milan. One of the accomplished women of Renaissance Italy, Ippolita once astonished Pope Pius II while he was visiting her father's court by reciting a Latin oration she had composed. She was 12 at the time. Ippolita (1446–1484)Queen of Naples.
Jun 11, 2020 · 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.
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