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Carteggio degli oratori mantovani alla corte sforzesca (1450-1500). .(Book Review)

Renaissance Quarterly

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Isabella Lazzarini, ed. Carteggio degli oratori mantovani alla corte sforzesca (1450-1500). Vol. 1, 1450-1459.

(Publicazioni degli Archivi di Stato.) Rome: Ministero per i beni e la attivita culturali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, 1999. xx + 575 pp. index. n.p. ISBN: 88-7125-160-1.

-----. Carteggio degli oratori mantovani alla corte sforzesca (1450-1500). Vol. 2, 1460.

(Publicazioni degli Archivi di Stato.) Rome: Ministero per beni e la attivita culturali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, 2000. 493 pp. index. n.p. ISBN: 88-7125-167-9.

-----. Carteggio degli oratori mantovani alla corte sforzesca (1450-1500). Vol. 3, 1461.

(Publicazioni degli Archivi di Stato.) Rome: Ministero per i beni cia attivita culturali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivisrici, 2000. 470 pp. index. n.p. ISBN: 88-7125-190-3.

Maria Nadia Covini, ed. Carteggio degli oratori mantovani al/a corte sforzesca (450-1500). Vol. 8, 1468-1471.

(Publicazioni degli Archivi di Stato.) Rome: Ministero per i beni e la attivita culturali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, 2000. 688 pp. index. n.p. ISBN: 88-7125-168-7.

In the second half of the fifteenth century, the Gonzaga, the ruling family of the small city-state of Mantua, made the decision to hitch their fortunes to those of the neighboring Milanese duchy, serving the ruling Sforza as mercenary military captains and as allies in the fractured political landscape of Italy. Following a practice that was gradually becoming common in Italy, the Gonzaga sent an ambassador to the Sforza court to remain there as a resident and report regularly back to the marquis of Mantua. For nearly fifty years, the Gonzaga retained a nearly continuous presence there, and the resultant copious correspondence of these ambassadors is a remarkable resource for the history of Milan under the Sforza, for the general diplomatic and political history of Italy, and for the important changes taking place in diplomatic institutions and practice in the fifteenth century. Now, …

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