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Ippolita Maria Sforza. Ippolita Maria Sforza (18 April 1445 – 20 August 1488) was an Italian noblewoman, a member of the Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of Milan from 1450 until 1535. She was the first wife of the Duke of Calabria, who later reigned as King Alfonso II of Naples. Ippolita was a very intelligent and cultured young woman.
Ippolita Maria Sforza was the daughter of Duke Francesco Sforza of Milan and Bianca Maria Visconti. Her father employed a number of scholars to provide his children with the finest of classical educations, which included Greek, Latin, rhetoric, and the arts. In 1454, Francesco added the humanist poet Antonio Cornazano to his household staff ...
Nov 15, 2023 · Ippolita Sforza was the second-born child and eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan Francesco I Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti. Her parents attached great value to a decent education for all their children, and they were, moreover, “thought of as well disposed to educated women.”
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 ...
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 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
Nov 15, 2023 · An early exception was Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–88), the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan, Francesco I Sforza. I argue that she not only studied the Greek language but also acted as a ...
