Ippolita Maria Sforza: Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto, 518, Band 518) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0866985743 ISBN 13: 9780866985741

Verlag: ARIZONA CTR FOR MEDIEVAL & REN, 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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Diana Robin is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of New Mexico, Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. She has published extensively on women and humanism in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.


Lynn Lara Westwater is Associate Professor of Italian at The George Washington University. For The Other Voice Series she is co-editor with Meredith K. Ray of Arcangela Tarabotti's Letters Familiar and Formal (2012) and with Diana Robin of Ippolita Sforza, Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations (2017).

Diana Robin is professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico and a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library. She has written, edited, and translated several books, most recently Isotta Nogarola's Complete Writings, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: ARIZONA CTR FOR MEDIEVAL & REN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0866985743
• ISBN 13: 9780866985741
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229
• Herausgeber: Robin Diana, Westwater Lynn Lara
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