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Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) [1] 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 ...
- 16 May 1412 - 13 August 1447
- Caterina Visconti
Jul 12, 2017 · Bianca Maria Visconti was born on 31 March 1425 as the illegitimate daughter of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan and Agnese del Maino. Her mother served as lady-in-waiting to Filippo’s wife, Beatrice di Tenda, who was tortured and executed on her husband’s orders before Bianca’s birth. Agnese and Filippo had a second daughter, named ...
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. 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 ...
Nov 15, 2019 · One major enemy during this period was Milan, lead by Duke Filippo Maria Visconti - Immensely fat, fearsomely ugly, rarely appeared in public, loved to roll around naked on the grass and murder his wives - and who made several attempts to invade Florence, urged on by the enemies of the Medici.
Flourished in the early 1400s; married Filippo Maria Visconti (1392–1447), duke of Milan (r. 1402–1447). Filippo had an illegitimate daughter, Bianca Maria Visconti (1423–1470), with Agnes del Maino .
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 Visconti 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 where another peace agreement was required to end the fighting. He married twice, the second ...
