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Ippolita Maria Sforza. 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. Ippolita was a very intelligent and cultured young woman.
Nov 15, 2023 · When ancient Greek heritage was rehabilitated in the Renaissance, its students were first and foremost aspiring humanists, and, almost as a rule, men. An early exception was Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–88), the eldest daughter of the Duke of Milan, Francesco I Sforza. I argue that she not only studied the Greek language but also acted as a ...
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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. In 1454, Francesco added the humanist poet Antonio Cornazano to his household staff ...
Ippolita Maria Sforza, a cultured young noblewoman who wrote poetry, letters and documents in Latin, was born on this day in 1446 in Cremona. She was married to Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, who later became King Alfonso II of Naples, because it was a politically advantageous alliance, but she did not live long enough to become his Queen consort.
Ippolita Maria Sforza as Salome. In the background she delivers the head of Saint John the Baptist to her mother Bianca Maria Visconti and in the foreground she dances in front of her father, Francesco Sforza (the second person on the right side), and her brothers Galeazzo Maria (on the right side) and Filippo Maria, Sforza Maria and Lodovico il Moro (in the background on the right side) and ...
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. Sforza’s letters display the adroit diplomacy she used to strengthen the alliance between Milan and Naples, then the two most powerful states in Italy, amid such ...
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.
