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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 .
- 16 May 1412 - 13 August 1447
- Caterina Visconti
biography of Duke Filippo Maria (1392. PIER CANDIDO DECEMBRIO’S –. 1447), the last member of the Visconti family to rule Milan, is one of the best known and least read of Renaissance classics.
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service of Francesco Sforza. In Francesco Sforza. 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.
Jul 10, 2020 · This book offers the first English translation and a new Latin edition of two biographical works by the Milanese humanist Pier Candido Decembrio. Decembrio was born in Ferrara but spent most of the first half of the fifteenth century serving as a secretary to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti and then to the Ambrosian Republic.
Filippo Maria was born in Milan on September 23, 1392 as the youngest son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351-1402) and Caterina Visconti (±1360-1404, to the right ). His parents were first cousins; Caterina was a daughter of Gian Galeazzo’s uncle Barnabo Visconti (±1323-1385). The marriage had united the Visconti lands.
Duke Filippo Maria Visconti was among the most politically dominant figures of his times. His aggressive expansionist policies from the 1420s to the 1440s enlarged the Milanese state to incorporate such territories as Genoa, Parma, and Brescia, before expansion into the Romagna ultimately brought it into extended conflict with Venice, Florence, and other Italian city states.Antonio di Puccio ...
Life dates. 1351-1402. Biography. Son of Galeazzo II Visconti (q.v.) and his wife Bianca of Savoy. He succeeded his father as Lord of Milan and, when the city was raised to a duchy in 1395, became the first Duke. He founded the Certosa at Pavia. His first wife was Isabelle of Valois; his second, whom he married in 1380, was his cousin Caterina ...
