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Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio : Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna / Elizabeth Louise Bernhardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gendering the late medieval and early modern worldPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048552870
  • 9048552877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 945.4/105092 23/eng/20230328
LOC classification:
  • DG975.B593 B47 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
Illustrations, Tables, Figures And Documents Abbreviations Acknowledgements & Dedication Introduction Chapter One -- Genevra Sforza de' Bentivoglio (ca. 1441-1507): Lost and Found in Renaissance Italy Chapter Two -- Twice Bentivoglio: Genevra Sforza On The Marriage Market (1446-1454 and 1463-1464) Chapter Three -- Genevra Sforza And Bentivoglio Family Strategies: Creating And Extending Kinship On A Massive Scale Chapter Four -- Genevra Sforza In Her Own Words: Patron And Client Relationships From Her Correspondence Chapter Five -- The Wheel Of Fortune: Genevra Sforza And The Fall Of The Bentivoglio (1506-1507) Chapter Six -- Making and Dispelling Fake History: Genevra Sforza And Her 'Black Legends' (1506-present) Conclusions
Summary: Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed twice there without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served her family by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their future alliances for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research conducted across Italy, this biography presents Genevra as the object of academic study for the first time. The book explores how Genevra's life-story, filled with a multitude of successes appropriate for an elite fifteenth-century female, was transformed into a concordant body of misogynistic legends about how she destroyed the Bentivoglio and the city of Bologna.
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Illustrations, Tables, Figures And Documents Abbreviations Acknowledgements & Dedication Introduction Chapter One -- Genevra Sforza de' Bentivoglio (ca. 1441-1507): Lost and Found in Renaissance Italy Chapter Two -- Twice Bentivoglio: Genevra Sforza On The Marriage Market (1446-1454 and 1463-1464) Chapter Three -- Genevra Sforza And Bentivoglio Family Strategies: Creating And Extending Kinship On A Massive Scale Chapter Four -- Genevra Sforza In Her Own Words: Patron And Client Relationships From Her Correspondence Chapter Five -- The Wheel Of Fortune: Genevra Sforza And The Fall Of The Bentivoglio (1506-1507) Chapter Six -- Making and Dispelling Fake History: Genevra Sforza And Her 'Black Legends' (1506-present) Conclusions

Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed twice there without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served her family by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their future alliances for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research conducted across Italy, this biography presents Genevra as the object of academic study for the first time. The book explores how Genevra's life-story, filled with a multitude of successes appropriate for an elite fifteenth-century female, was transformed into a concordant body of misogynistic legends about how she destroyed the Bentivoglio and the city of Bologna.

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