He died in 1466 and was succeeded as duke by his son, Galeazzo Maria Sforza. While Sforza was recognized as duke of Milan, his son Ludovico would be the...

Bianca Maria Visconti (31 March 1425 – 28 October 1468) also known as Bianca Maria Sforza or Blanca Maria was Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468 by marriage...

Ludovico Maria Sforza (Italian: [ludoˈviːko maˈriːa ˈsfɔrtsa]; 27 July 1452 – 27 May 1508), also known as Ludovico il Moro (Italian: [il ˈmɔːro]; 'the...

Alessandro Sforza, lord of Pesaro, and Costanza da Varano (1428–1447), the eldest daughter of Piergentile Varano (d. 1433), Lord of Camerino, and Elisabetta Malatesta...

Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza (1921 – March 2, 2017) was an Italian artist and mosaicist. Cesarini Sforza was born in Bologna in 1921. She attended the Accademia...

the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447. He was succeeded by a short-lived republic and then by his son-in-law Francesco I Sforza, who established the...

Ferrara), moved to that town with her daughter Elisabetta Caterina after the death of her husband, Tristano Sforza. In the 1500s, the Servite order reconstructed...

Foix; and secondly on 18 July 1469, Elisabetta Sforza (d.1473), daughter of Francesco I Duke of Milan and Bianca Maria Visconti; and finally, on 6 January...

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 of...

Maria Anna of Savoy (Italian: Maria Anna Ricciarda Carolina Margherita Pia; 19 September 1803 – 4 May 1884) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary...

of the theory that it was by Leonardo have propositioned that Bianca Maria Sforza is the woman depicted in the drawing. Some of those who disagree with...

children: Eleonora (1591-?) Elena, became a nun Pirro Maria (1590–1628) Sigismonda (1587–1595) Elisabetta (1591-?) Giuliana (1593–1599) Caterina (1589–1609)...

and Elisabetta Sforza, daughter of Duke Francesco I Sforza of Milan and Bianca Maria Visconti, after whom Blanche was named. Her mother Elisabetta died...

1511 Elisabetta (1471–1526) married in 1489 to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino Maddelena (1472–1490) married in 1489 to Giovanni Sforza Lord...

law of Francesco Maria I della Rovere Duke of Urbino and nephew of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro Sigismondo Gonzaga (1469–1525) Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471–1526)...

condottiero, married Bianca Giovanna Sforza, then Elisabetta del Carretto of the Marquis of Finale; Antonio Maria [it] (c. 1460 – 1509), condottiero, lord...

(Maria di Foix) Gaston IV, Count of Foix (Foix-Béarn-Bigorre) 1452 19 January 1465 1467 Guglielmo VIII Paleologo Isabella Maria Sforza (Elisabetta Maria...

married Elisabetta Gonzaga, the sister of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Guidobaldo was impotent, and they had no children, but Elisabetta refused...

of Lodi. In 1441, Francesco Sforza married Bianca Maria Visconti (1425–1468), the illegitimate daughter of Filippo Maria Visconti, 3rd Duke of Milan....

the Roman family of the Orsini. The son of Girolamo Orsini and Francesca Sforza, he was grandson, on his father's side, of Felice della Rovere (illegitimate...

privata e l'arte a Milano nella seconda metà del Quattrocento. Ascanio Maria Sforza, la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del rinascimento, volume...

– 3 January 1497) was Duchess of Bari and Milan by marriage to Ludovico Sforza (known as "il Moro"). She was known as a woman of culture, an important...

letter-writer and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Elisabetta Gonzaga. Isabella grew up in a cultured family in the city-state of Ferrara...

teenager. In 1442 before she married Sforza, Varano traveled to see Bianca Maria Visconti wife of Francesco Sforza, whom, at the time, controlled Camerino...

Maria Beatrice of Savoy (Maria Beatrice Vittoria Giuseppina; 6 December 1792 – 15 September 1840) was Duchess of Modena by marriage to Francis IV, Duke...

nun at Santa Paola di Mantua. Dorotea (1449–1467), married to Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. Cecilia (1451–1472), a nun at Santa Chiara di Mantua...

Diario poetico di Elisabetta d'Austria, Aracne, Rome, 2006 (ISBN 8854807419) Matteo Tuveri: Tabularium. Considerazioni su Elisabetta d'Austria, Aracne...

military career, despite taking part in some battles as a leader. He married Elisabetta Gonzaga and protected artists such as Raphael, Bramantino and Luca Signorelli...

grandchild Princess Maria Adelaide. She also maintained a good friendship with her daughter-in-law Anne Marie. Maria Adelaide and her sister Maria Luisa would...

Absolutism in Renaissance Milan. Plenitude of power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329–1535. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199565290. Bueno de...