Description
The volume comprehensively deals with the political biography of Eleonora d’Aragona duchess of Ferrara (1450-1493), a crucial figure, but still neglected, of the political network of Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century: daughter of King Ferrante of Aragon and nephew of the Magnanimous; mother of Isabella d’Este and of the younger Beatrice, wife of Ludovico il Moro; sister of the Queen of Hungary, Beatrice. The Duchess, straddling Naples and Ferrara, thanks to a directing humanistic education and a clear awareness of her responsibilities – in a word of her political and dynastic identity – was a fundamental intermediary in those typical passages of fifteenth-century political culture: as a lady of Ferrara, as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, that is to say in all the roles that her position in the Aragonese and Este dynastic network allowed her to exercise. We are faced with a particularly significant case of power-sharing in the context of the Italian principalities of the Renaissance.| Period | 27 Apr 2023 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Fisciano, Italy |
| Degree of Recognition | National |