Lives of the Milanese Tyrants

Informationen zum Autor Gary Ianziti is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. Massimo Zaggia is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo. Klappentext Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan-the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza-written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts. Zusammenfassung Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan—the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza—written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.

Product details

• Authors: Pier Candido Decembrio
• Assisted by: Massimo Zaggia (Editor), Gary Ianziti (Translation), Ianziti Gary (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780674987524
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98752-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; 1500 bis heute, Europäische Geschichte: Renaissance, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Europe, Politik und Staat, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Renaissance - Frührenaissance, HISTORY / Renaissance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political leaders & leadership, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance