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Other articles where Gian Galeazzo Sforza II is discussed: Ludovico Sforza: Early life and assumption of power: …duchy to his seven-year-old son, Gian Galeazzo, Ludovico first revealed his appetite for power, plotting to win the regency from the child’s mother, Bona of Savoy. The plot failed, and Ludovico was exiled but eventually, through threats and flattery, won a reconciliation with ...
Ritratto di Gian Galeazzo, scuola di Benedetto Briosco, verso il 1490. Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza ( Abbiategrasso, 20 giugno 1469 – Pavia, 21 ottobre 1494 [1]) è stato il sesto duca di Milano e il terzo della dinastia Sforza. In linguaggio cifrato fu anche soprannominato Instabilis. [2]
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Gian Galeazzo died in 1494 in the Visconti Castle, the summer home of the Visconti and Sforza families. During that time, he received a visit from Charles VIII of France. According to the Italian historian Francesco Guicciardini in his History of Italy ( Italian: La Historia di Italia ), he was poisoned by his uncle, Ludovico il Moro.
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NameRelationship To The House Of SforzaFounder of the House of SforzaSon of Muzio Attendolo, first Sforza ...Wife of Francesco I SforzaSon of Francesco I Sforza and Bianca ...Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Galeazzo Maria Sforza (24 January 1444 – 26 December 1476) was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until 1476. He was notorious for being lustful, cruel, and tyrannical. He was born to Francesco Sforza, a popular condottiero and ally of Cosimo de' Medici who would gain the Duchy of Milan in 1450, and Bianca Maria Visconti.
Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the panoply of state were integrated with the rhythms ...
Cousin and (first) husband of Isabella of Aragon (this portrait, which shows him with the symbol of his favourite Saint, St. Sebastian, the arrow, was made by Leonardo da Vinci), c. 1483. Born: 20. June 1469. Deceased: 21. or 22. October 1494. Father: Galeazzo Maria Sforza († 1476; assassinated), Duke of Milan.
