Lives of the Milanese tyrants /

Lives of the Milanese tyrants /

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Author / Creator:	Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	liii, 339 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English Latin
Series:	The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 88 I Tatti Renaissance library ; 88.
Subject:	Filippo Maria Visconti, -- Duke of Milan, -- 1392-1447 -- Early works to 1800. Francesco Sforza, -- Duke of Milan, -- 1401-1466 -- Early works to 1800. Filippo Maria Visconti, -- Duke of Milan, -- 1392-1447. Francesco Sforza, -- Duke of Milan, -- 1401-1466. Kings and rulers. Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535 -- Early works to 1800. Milan (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800. Italy -- Milan. Biography. Early works. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11933176

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Other uniform titles:	Ianziti, Gary, Zaggia, Massimo, Container of (expression): Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477. Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis Mediolanensium ducis tertii vita. Container of (expression): Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477. Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis Mediolanensium ducis tertii vita. English. Container of (expression): Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477. Annotatio rerum gestarum in vita Francisci Sfortiae IV Mediolanensium Ducis. Container of (expression): Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477. Annotatio rerum gestarum in vita Francisci Sfortiae IV Mediolanensium Ducis. English. 2018.
ISBN:	9780674987524 0674987527
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Summary:	The two works published in this volume were written at different times and under widely different circumstances. They also represent two very different moments in the career of their author, the once famed but now too often forgotten Milanese humanist Pier Candido Decembrio (1399-1477). The first work--a life of the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria Visconti (1392-1447)--was essentially a product of Decembrio's twenty-eight years of service, from 1419 to 1447, as secretary, envoy, and personal literary factotum to Duke Filippo Maria and his advisors: "The picture of the fifteenth century would be incomplete without this unique biography, which is characteristic down to its minutest details." The second work published here has attracted much less acclaim. It is an account of the deeds in arms of the condottiere Francesco Sforza (1401-1466), who through a combination of guile, force, and sheer willpower managed to secure for himself and his immediate heirs the succession to the Duchy of Milan. Decembrio wrote this second biography in the early 1460s, at a critical moment in his career.--

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