Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples

Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Illustrations 41
Letters (1453–1486)
Table: Source Texts of Translated Letters 57
1. Travels in Lombardy: Letters 1–22 (1453–1465) 61
2. Marriage and Betrayal: Letters 23–28 (1465–1466) 80
3. Between Milan and Naples: Letters 29–36 (1466–1467) 89
4. Galeazzo’s Marriage and Bianca Maria Visconti’s Death: Letters 37–45 (1467–1468) 97
5. The Ambassadors: Letters 46–67 (1469–1475) 108
6. Cholera: Letters 68–75 (1475–1476) 127
7. Assassination and the Struggle for Succession: Letters 76–83 (1477–1479) 134
8. Pazzi Conspiracy and the Ottoman Invasion of Otranto: Letters 84–93 (1479–1482) 145
9. Ippolita and Lorenzo: Letters 94–100 (1482–1486) 156
Orations (1455–1465)
Wedding Oration for Tristano Sforza and Beatrice d’Este (1455) 173
Oration for Pope Pius II (1459) 185
Oration for Bianca Maria Visconti (1465) 191
Glossary of Names 197
Chronology 205
Bibliography 211
Index 219