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Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations: Volume 55 - Brossura

 
9780866985741: Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations: Volume 55
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ISBN 10: 0866985743 ISBN 13: 9780866985741
Casa editrice: Iter Pr, 2017

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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 grave crises as her brother’s assassination in Milan and the Turkish invasion of Otranto. Still, Ippolita lived as a hostage at the Neapolitan court, subject not only to the threat of foreign invasion but also to her husband’s well-known sexual adventures and her father-in-law’s ruthlessness. Soon after Ippolita’s mysterious death in 1488, the fraught Naples-Milan alliance collapsed.

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Editore
Iter Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0866985743
ISBN 13 
9780866985741
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
229
Redattore
Robin Diana, Westwater Lynn Lara
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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