Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples – Letters and Orations
Regular price
€40.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Diana Robin
A01=Ippolita Maria Sforza
A01=Lynn Lara Westwater
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Diana Robin
Author_Ippolita Maria Sforza
Author_Lynn Lara Westwater
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BG
Category=DNB
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780866985741
- Weight: 378g
- Dimensions: 160 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
