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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 ...
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.
- 26 December 1476 – 21 October 1494
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Jun 21, 2013 · The manuscript (now Add MSS 34294, 45722, 62997, and 80800) was commissioned about 1490 by the Duchess of Milan Bona Sforza (d. 1503), the second wife of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. The Milanese court painter Giovan Pietro Birago (fl. 1471-1513) was contracted to embellish it with miniatures. Bas-de-page scene of a hound chasing a rabbit, with Bona ...
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The House of Sforza ( pronounced [ˈsfɔrtsa]) was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Milan. Sforza rule began with the family's acquisition of the Duchy of Milan following the extinction of the Visconti family in the mid-15th century and ended with the death of the last member of the family's main branch, Francesco II Sforza, in 1535.
- Milan: Francesco II (1535), Pesaro: Galeazzo Sforza (1512)
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 ...
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The marriage in 1489 of Isabella of Aragon (1470-1524) to. cousin, Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan (1469-94), continued. policy of marriage alliances by which the rulers of Naples and Milan. cemented their power in the peninsula1. From their common blood Isabella and Galeazzo inherited only weakness. They.
"Gian Galeazzo Sforza" published on by null. (1469–94),Third Sforza duke of Milan, the son of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, whom he succeeded at the age of 7 under the regency of his mother Bona of Savoy, who ...
