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After the death of their mother Battista and Costanzo, together with their illegitimate half-sisters Ginevra (1440–1507) and Antonia (1445–1500), moved to the court of their paternal uncle Francesco Sforza and his wife Bianca Maria Visconti where they were brought up alongside their cousins.
Bianca Maria’s daughter, Ippolita, praised her mother’s intelligence, noted her “zeal for doing good for all humankind,” and celebrated both her “great liberality” and the temples that she built for the “immortal gods.” (Quoted in King, 45) With her support both Santa Nicola and Santa Maria della Pace were constructed.
Francesco I Sforza KG ( Italian pronunciation: [ franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
Élete Származása. Sforza Galeazzo Mária milánói herceg és Bona savoyai hercegnő lánya. Nevét apai nagyanyja, Visconti Bianka Mária milánói hercegné (1425–1468) után kapta, aki I. Fülöp Mária milánói hercegnek Agnese del Maino úrnővel folytatott házasságon kívüli viszonyából született, és akinek a férje, Francesco Sforza az apósa halála után kitört ...
Visconti-Sforza Tarot. A Visconti-Sforza Tarot kártyát más néven királyi Tarotnak is szokás említeni, hiszen fejedelem megrendelésére készült, a lapokon lévő figurák pedig uralkodók, hercegek és más magas rangú személyek képmásait jelenítik meg. Hasonlóan más Tarot kártyacsomagokhoz, szintén 78 lapból áll, melyben 22 ...
Visconti Park. / 45.21944°N 9.16694°E / 45.21944; 9.16694. Visconti Park (Parco Visconteo in Italian) was the private park of the Visconti and Sforza families, lords, and dukes of Milan. Located in Lombardy, northern Italy, it extended between Pavia Castle and the Certosa di Pavia monastery. It covered an area of about 2,200 hectares ...
Bianca of Savoy (1337– Pavia, 31 December 1387) was Lady of Milan by marriage to Galeazzo II Visconti. Early life [ edit ] Bianca was the only surviving daughter of Aimone, Count of Savoy and Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat , [1] herself the daughter of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (1291–1338) and Genoese noblewoman Argentina ...
