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  1. Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Known to be cruel and paranoid, but shrewd as a ruler, he went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Florence and Venice in the Wars in Lombardy, but was eventually forced to accept peace under Pope Martin V. He would return to the offensive again ...

  2. Entering the service of Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, Sforza fought alternately for and against him in the succeeding 20 years. During periods of uneasy truce he became betrothed (1433) to and married (1441) the duke’s illegitimate daughter and only child, Bianca Maria.

  3. PIER CANDIDO DECEMBRIO’S biography of Duke Filippo Maria (1392– 1447), the last member of the Visconti family to rule Milan, is one of the best known and least read of Renaissance classics.

  4. Nov 1, 2022 · Pier Candido Decembrio's biography of Duke Filippo Maria (1392–1447), the last member of the Visconti family to rule Milan, is one of the best known and least read of Renaissance classics. Written in 1447, in the immediate aftermath of Duke Filippo's death, the work covers the career of a prince whose thirty-five years in power (1412–47 ...

  5. Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Known to be cruel and paranoid, but shrewd as a ruler, he went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Florence and Venice in the Wars in Lombardy, but was eventually forced to accept peace under Pope Martin V.

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  7. On May 16, Giovanni Maria was stabbed to death at the door of a church. Francesco “Carmagnola” Bussone (±1385-1432), a condottieri, secured the duchy of Milan for 19-year-old Filippo Maria. One of Filippo Maria's first acts as Duke was to have his brother’s murderers tortured and executed.

  8. Apr 8, 2016 · Three luxury tarot decks have survived from the mid-15th century. One of the decks is thought to have been made for Filippo Maria Visconti, the last duke of Milan of that name, prior to his death in 1447. Known as The Visconti Tarot, the deck's 69 surviving cards are preserved in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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