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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 .
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Ippolita Maria Sforza (26 January 1493 – 1501) was the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan and Isabella of Naples . She was also the niece of Bianca Maria Sforza, who in 1493 had married Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Ippolita Maria Sforza . She was engaged to Ferdinand of Aragón, Duke of ...
This manuscript, written in an extremely elegant humanistic minuscule, comprises a fragment of the Book of Hours, MS. Varia 89 at the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, created for Ippolita Maria Sforza, Duchess of Calabria, and with an inscription by the Florentine copyist Alessandro da Verrazzano.
