Politics, pedagogy, and praise: Three literary texts dedicated to Eleonora d’Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara
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O'Leary, Jessica. (2016). Politics, pedagogy, and praise: Three literary texts dedicated to Eleonora d’Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara. I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. 19(2), pp. 285 - 307. https://doi.org/10.1086/688439
Authors | O'Leary, Jessica |
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Keywords | [Extract] In the summer of 1479; Eleonora d’Aragona was in her second term as regent after the outbreak of the Pazzi War; a conflict between Florence and the papacy that had erupted a year earlier and would drag on to 1480. The duchess of Ferrara was feverishly engaged with the business of ruling while her husband; Ercole d’Este; defended Tuscany from papal forces.1 While the couple was in frequent contact and the duke’s vast retinue of staff undoubtedly bore much of the burden for executing the administrative tasks required of a fifteenth-century chancery; Eleonora was the target of incoming and outgoing requests; orders; and mandates that required her vigilant supervision of the various divisions of the court.2 The demands on the duchess’s time were gruffly noted by the Mantuan ambassador in Ferrara; Beltramino Cusadri. In a letter to the marchioness of Mantua; Margherita Wittelsbach of Bavaria; another wartime regent; Cusadri conveyed his frustration at being made to wait for an audience with her Ferrarese counterpart: |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance |
Journal citation | 19 (2), pp. 285 - 307 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
ISSN | 0393-5949 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1086/688439 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84992047533 |
Page range | 285 - 307 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
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