SFORZA, FRANCESCO I

fränchāsˈkō, 1401–66, duke of Milan (1450–66); illegitimate son of Muzio Attendolo Sforza. He succeeded his father as leader of his band of mercenaries, and by his valor and sagacity he became one of the most powerful condottieri of his time. In 1441 he married Bianca Maria, illegitimate daughter of Filippo Maria (see under Visconti), duke of Milan. On Filippo's death (1447) the so-called Ambrosian republic was set up in Milan. Francesco, who commanded the Milanese troops, made himself master of the republic and was proclaimed duke in 1450 with the support of the Medici of Florence. He consolidated the power of Milan and in 1464 seized Genoa. An able prince, he patronized arts and letters and beautified Milan. His son, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, succeeded him as duke.

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A History of Milan under the Sforza
Book by Cecilia M. Ady, Edward Armstrong; Methuen & Co., 1907
Subjects: Art--Italy--Milan, Milan (Italy)--History, Sforza Family
...310 , 312 - 14 , 318 . Sforza, Francesco, Il Duchetto, 140...87 , 88 ; succeeds Francesco I. as Duke, 92 - 94...Giovanni, son of Sforza, 11 , 21 . -- -- Maria...Leone, son of Sforza, 11 . -- Lodovico...
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Italy and Italians
Book by Carlo Sforza, Edward Hutton; E. P. Dutton, 1949
Subjects: Italy--Civilization, National Characteristics, Italian
...23 Gonzago, Luigi, 71 Gori, Antonio Francesco, 26 Gorres, J. J. von, 75 Gozzi...14 Hapsburg-Lorraine, Dukes of, I 17 Haynau, Marshal, 143 Hegel, G...157 Mazzini, Pippo, 46 Medici, Messer Francesco de, 24 Medicis, Marie de, 29 Meli...
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Fifty Years of War and Diplomacy in the Balkans: Pashich and the Union of the Yugoslavs
Book by Carlo Sforza, J. G. Clemenceau Le Clerq; Columbia University Press, 1940
Subjects: Eastern Question (Balkan), Serbia--History, Yugoslavia--History
...annexation, 15 , 19 ; Serbian retreat from, 130 Nitti, Francesco Saverio, 165 , 168 Novakovich, Stojan, 69 Obrenovich family...enthusiasm for Pashich, 22 , 49 ; exploitation, 101 Peter I Karageorgevich, King of Serbia, ii; reign, 49 -63; achieves...
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Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539: A Study of the Renaissance - Vol. 2
Book by Julia Cartwright; John Murray, 1905
Subjects: Isabella D'Este--Consort Of Francesco Ii Gonzaga, Marquis Of Mantua--1474-1539, Italy--History--1492-1559, Renaissance--Italy
...Sforza, Bona, i . 4 , 40 ; her betrothal, ii . 114 ; marriage, 114 . See Milan Sforza, Caterina, i . 105 Sforza, Francesco, ii . 66 , 184 ; his birth, i . 114 . See Milan Sforza, Gianpaolo, i . 374 Sforza, Giovanni, lord of Pesaro...
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Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539: A Study of the Renaissance - Vol. 2
Book by Julia Cartwright Ady; John Murray, 1903
Subjects: Isabella d'Este--consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua--1474-1539, Italy--History--1492-1559, Renaissance--Italy
...Sforza, Bona, i. 4 , 40 ; her betrothal, ii. 114 ; marriage, 114 . See Milan Sforza, Caterina, i. 105 Sforza, Francesco, ii. 66 , 184 ; his birth, i. 114 . See Milan Sforza, Gianpaolo, i. 374 Sforza, Giovanni, lord of Pesaro...
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Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza [*
Journal article by Julia L. Hairston; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Historiography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Machiavelli, Niccolo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex role--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the story of Carerina Sforza realizes that I have glossed over the...legend of Caterina Sforza, I have attempted to highlight...Hill. Serdonati, Francesco. 1869. "Caterina Sforza." In Vite di cinque...Italienische Etymologien. I. Ital. cilecca...
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Patrician Sages and the Humanist Cynic: Francesco Filelfo and the Ethics of World Citizenship
Journal article by W. Scott Blanchard; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Citizenship--Ethical aspects, Filelfo, Francesco--Criticism and interpretation, Filelfo, Francesco--Political activity, Florence, Italy--Political aspects, Medici, Cosimo de--Political activity, Valla, Lorenzo--Political activity
...obligatory flatteries to Filippo ("whom I love more than life itself...multiple negations of line 96 ("I dont want, I dont") are a powerful reminder...to serve under the new regime of Francesco Sforza. (97) The cosmopolitan ideal...
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"Concludo Che Non Vidi Mai la Piu Bella Casa in Italia": The Frescoed Decorations in Francesco II Gonzaga's Suburban Villa in the Mantuan Countryside at Gonzaga
Journal article by Clifford M. Brown; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Decoration and ornament--14th century, Mantua, Italy--Buildings, facilities, etc., Mural painting and decoration--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Palaces--Italy
...Galeazzo Maria Sforza, made the second...heir, Federico I, ordered Andrea...undertaken by Francesco II within the...Ma il signor Francesco con questi eccellentissimi cavalli, I quail variamente...employed by Gian Francesco Gonzaga in 1432...46) Giovanni Sforza da Pesaro wrote...
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Durer's Melencolia I: Plato's Abandoned Search for the Beautiful
Journal article by Patrick Doorly; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Art history, Drawing, Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528), Plato, Visual artists
Durers Melencolia I: Platos Abandoned Search for...in his monograph on Melencolia I. The persistent enigma posed...themes that reappear in Melencolia I (an eighth became the subject...assure his patron, Lodovico Sforza, that while the mathematical...
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Miraculous Childbirth and the Portinari Altarpiece
Journal article by Julia I. Miller; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism, Births, Religious icons, van der Goes, Hugo
...century, for example, Francesco Sforza requested information about...lightly. It is unlikely, I believe, that the donor...suffering. Transformed, I say, is a curse into a...any pain in birth.(49) I would suggest, then, that...
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Leonardo Lives On
Magazine article by Martin Gani; World and I, Vol. 17, November 2002
Subjects: Art, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Artists--Works, Leonardo da Vinci--Criticism and interpretation, Leonardo da Vinci--Works, Renaissance art--Criticism and interpretation
...recently, I found a powerful...Lodovico Sforza, duke of Milan...his father, Francesco. It was to...altar of San Francesco church in Milan...da Vinci, I went in search of San Francesco. Alas, it...of Lodovico Sforza, the duke...
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A Ticinese Flair for Life : Although the Canton of Ticino Is Officially Part of Switzerland, Its Architecture, Food, Language, and Attitudes Testify to the Region's Italian Character
Magazine article by Martin Gani; World and I, Vol. 15, April 2000
Subjects: Popular culture, Ticino, Switzerland
...in, but they dont seem to mind if I look on for a while. Inhabitants of...imposed isolation beyond measure. I meet Francesco Canova, a local, semiretired documentary...Muggio, close to the Italian border. I ask him why he chose to live in such...
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Ferrante of Naples: The Statecraft of a Renaissance Prince
Magazine article by David Abulafia; History Today, Vol. 45, February 1995
Subjects: Ferrante, King of Naples--Political activity, Italy--History, Kings and rulers--Biography, Naples, Italy--Kings and rulers
...Ferdinand II and Charles I of Spain; 1494 was...Alfonso V (Alfonso I of Naples), the...princes, such as Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan...elegant praise from Francesco Bandini in the 1470s...all three. Ferrante I died early in 1494...
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Reading Leonardo
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 276, April 7, 2003
Subjects: Artists--Biography, Etudes sur Leonard de Vinci: Ceux Qu'il a Lus et Ceux Qui L'ont Lu (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Leonardo da Vinci--Biography, Scientists--Biography
...is like a mystical knot. I can appreciate that the...great equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, commissioned by his son...Leonardo was to have depicted Francesco on a rearing horse. It...have been shown together. I spoke briefly with designer...
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Leonardo's Fossils
Magazine article by Martin Kemp; Natural History, Vol. 105, November 1996
Subjects: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Nature, Science
...adhering to the rocks. In a rare autobiographical note, he recalled, "when I was making the great horse at Milan the great bronze equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, a large sack of those fossil shells which had been found in those parts was...
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AROUND BOLOGNA; Throw Caution, and Diet, to the Wind in Fat City
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 21, 2006
...WASHINGTON TIMES BOLOGNA, Italy - I could eat tortellini alla panna...a delightful old city that I immediately came to adore. My...preceding the stop at Vecchia Malga, I began the day with a visit to Tenuta Bonzara, meeting Francesco Lambertini, a University of...
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LEONARDO RISE OF A GENIUS; in the First of Two Pieces on the National Gallery's Extraordinary Once-in-a-Lifetime Exhibition, Our Critic Looks at How Da Vinci Blossomed from Late Starter to Renaissance Master; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 10, 2011
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Leonardo da Vinci--Criticism and interpretation, Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions
...perhaps deserves attention -- Francesco, Leonardos uncle, who was...37), he boasted to Ludovico Sforza, a wily military man, that...Ceiling at the halfway point. I am intrigued by two less obvious...curators -- were it in my power, I would honour him with a life...
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SUMPTUOUS FARE FOR BOTH EYE AND MIND; from Antico to Zoffany, 2011 Has Been Distinguished by Works of Scholarship, Flair and Fun ART BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 22, 2011
Subjects: Leonardo da Vinci--Criticism and interpretation
...equestrian monuments (Sforza and Trivulzio) came...of the NG exhibition, I must advise visitors...not to diminish it if I say that it is ideal...through the Baroque, I must commend the discipline of Francesco Borrominis own explanation...


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Sforza, Francesco I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SFORZA, FRANCESCO I franchas ko, sfor tsa, 1401 66, duke...illegitimate son of Muzio Attendolo Sforza. He succeeded his father as leader of...Ambrosian republic was set up in Milan. Francesco, who commanded the Milanese troops...
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Sforza
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...His illegitimate son, Francesco I Sforza (see separate article...Visconti duke of Milan. Francesco was succeeded by his...surrender Milan to Francis I of France; Massimiliano...Massimilianos brother, Francesco II Sforza, 1495 1535. Francesco...
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Sforza, Ludovico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SFORZA, LUDOVICO loodove ko sfor...1494 99); younger son of Francesco I Sforza. He was called Ludovico il...Gian Galeazzo Sforza (see Sforza , family), and from that...Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I . Partly in order to divert...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the court of Ludovico Sforza for 16 years. In this...he was employed with Francesco di Giorgio as consulting...to the dukes father, Francesco Sforza. The work was never...invitation of Francis I of France to settle at...
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Visconti
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1322) in favor of his son, Galeazzo I Visconti, 1277? 1328, who continued...through her that Louis XII and Francis I of France derived their claim to Milan...sole heir, Bianca Maria, married Francesco I Sforza , who became duke of Milan after the...
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