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    Gian Galeazzo Sforza (20 June 1469 – 21 October 1494), also known as Giovan Galeazzo Sforza, was the sixth Duke of Milan. Born in Abbiategrasso, Gian...
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    Galeazzo Maria Sforza (24 January 1444 – 26 December 1476) was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until 1476. He was notorious for being lustful, cruel...
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    usurpation. To solidify the pact he married Bianca Maria Sforza, sister of the young Gian Galeazzo. This marriage brought him the sum of 400,000 ducats...
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    Francesco I Sforza married Bianca Maria Visconti son Galeazzo Maria Sforza married Bona of Savoy, mistress Lucrezia Landriani daughter Bianca Maria (1472–1510)...
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    Gian Maria Visconti (or Giovanni Maria; 7 September 1388 – 16 May 1412) was the second Visconti Duke of Milan, the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti and Caterina...
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    of the Roman Empire. It was enlarged by Galeazzo's successors, Gian Galeazzo, Giovanni Maria and Filippo Maria Visconti, until it became a square-plan...
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    Milan by the last Visconti ruler, Filippo Maria), and his granddaughter, Isabella, wife of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the official Duke of Milan, but who was...
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    Belle Ferronnière, now in the Louvre. For the wedding between Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Isabella of Aragon, he staged the so-called Festa del Paradiso...
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    becoming titular Duke of Milan at the age of 8, was the only son of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, the sixth Duke of Milan, and his wife, Isabella of Naples. After...
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    prompted Gian Galeazzo to build two dams at Valeggio sul Mincio and Bassano del Grappa. In 1457, Bianca Maria Visconti and her husband Francesco Sforza donated...
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  • Ippolita Maria Sforza (26 January 1493 – 1501) was the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan and Isabella of Naples. She was also the niece of Bianca...
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    1360 in a few years by Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan, and used as a sovereign residence by him and his son Gian Galeazzo, first duke of Milan. Its...
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    Barbiano, who nicknamed him "Sforza" ('Strong'). In 1398 he was at the service of Perugia against the Milanese troops of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, to whom Muzio...
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    Ludovico Sforza, started to claim the Duchy of Milan for himself, quoting his paternal descendance from Valentina Visconti and Gian Galeazzo's last will...
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    Ippolita Maria Sforza (Jesi, 18 April 1445 – Naples, 19 August 1488) was an Italian noblewoman, a member of the Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of...
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    control over Milan. Filippo Maria was the brother of the deceased Gian Maria, the legal heir, as the son of Gian Galeazzo, who had usurped the lordship...
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  • had two older brothers: Gian Galeazzo Sforza and Hermes Maria Sforza, Marquis of Tortona, and a sister, Bianca Maria Sforza, second wife of Maximilian...
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    Bianca Maria (1493) The Archinto Portrait (National Gallery, London), 1494 Angel playing lute Alleged portrait of Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza as Saint...
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    character as an adult. From 1471, Isabella was planned to marry Gian Galeazzo Sforza, heir of the Duchy of Milan, and the preparations were concluded...
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    Alfonso thus came to the rescue of his daughter Isabella, wife of Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza, nephew of Ludovico, to whom his uncle had usurped the Duchy of...
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  • of Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza Francesco II Sforza (1495–1535), son of Ludovico il Moro and last Duke of Milan of the Sforza dynasty Francesco Sforza (cardinal)...
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  • Sforza Maria's and Galeazzo's niece) to the Milanese court, to be brought up there and eventually be married to Galeazzo's son and heir Gian Galeazzo...
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    the eyes of Gian Galeazzo, a prominence questioned by the choice of the new lord to reside and maintain his court, like his father Galeazzo II, in Pavia...
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    Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1466–1476) and Ludovico Sforza (1494–1499), and the uncle of a third, Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1476–1494). Ascanio was a student of Francesco...
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    Duchy of Milan (category House of Sforza)
    Lombard: Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti...
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    Duchy of Bari (category House of Sforza)
    Vaglienti, Francesca M. (2000). "Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza nel Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" [Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza in the Biographical Dictionary...
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    23 November 1503) was Duchess of Milan as the second spouse of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. She served as regent of Milan during the minority...
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    favourite; Galeazzo Sanseverino, who was 22 years old at the time. On a particular day, on December, year 1489, Bianca's cousin; Gian Galeazzo Sforza, in other...
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    fifteenth century reconstruction of the sanctuary, supported by Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza, there was a large flow of artists from the Milanese area to create...
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    King, the Florentines and Ludovico Sforza, regent of the Duchy of Milan for his nephew Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza took up arms to help Ferrara, with the...
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