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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 .
A Child Prodigy of Dance. 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.
Nov 15, 2023 · In this paper, I look in detail at Ippolita Maria Sforza's Greek learning, adopting a double approach and focusing on two poorly studied Greek grammars dedicated to her by Constantine Lascaris (1434–1501) and Bonino Mombrizio (1424–78/82?). Two questions constitute my starting point.
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I hope to return to consider in more detail two letters that particularly seek. to involve Lorenzo in the interests of her brother, Ascanio Maria Sforza (MAP, XXXVIII, 425, 1 April 1482, and 450, 25 May 1482). 15 Angelo Fabroni, Laurentii Medicis Magnifici Vita, 2 vols. (Pisa, 1784), II, 223-24.
Edited and Translated by Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater. 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.
Dag Lindström Uppsala University. Ippolita Maria Sforza: Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations. Edited and translated by Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater. Toronto: Iter Press 2017. 229 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-86698-574-1.
Ippolita Maria Sforza: Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations. Edited and translated by Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater. Toronto: Iter Press 2017. 229 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-86698-574-1.
