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Article: A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lubkin's fascinating book presents the first full-length portrait of Renaissance Milan in English since that of Cecilia Ady in 1907, and the most fully documented description of any fifteenth-century Italian court yet to be published in this country. As such, the book fills a large lacuna in Italian historical studies. A vivid picture of everyday life at the court of duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza, son of the military strongman and self-made duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, Lubkin's work is the product of fifteen years' labor in the city archives of Milan, Mantua, Modena, and Florence.
A Renaissance Court chronicles the rise and fall of Galeazzo Maria and his reign over ...