Sforza, Ippolita. Duchess and hostage in Renaissance Naples : letters and orations

Folger bibliographic ID: 355720
Folger call number: DG848.112.S48 A4 2017
Folger holdings ID: 503905
Accession Number: 222911

"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." -- Back cover

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Translated from the Italian Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index

Uniform title: Correspondence. Selections. English
Extended title: Duchess and hostage in Renaissance Naples : letters and orations / Ippolita Maria Sforza ; edited and translated by Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater

Sforza, Ippolita, 1445-1488 Naples (Kingdom)

author: Sforza, Ippolita, 1445-1488
subject: Sforza, Ippolita, 1445-1488
editor: Robin, Diana Maury
editor: Westwater, Lynn Lara.