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A Renaissance Marriage - The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519 (Hardcover)
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A Renaissance Marriage - The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519 (Hardcover)
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The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of
the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small
northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a
fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern
period. A Renaissance Marriage shows an aristocratic couple who,
within several years of their wedding, had to deal with the
political challenges posed by the first decades of the Italian Wars
(1494-1559) and, later, the scourge of the Great Pox, humanising a
relationship that was organised for entirely strategic reasons, but
had to be inhabited emotionally if it was to produce the political
and dynastic advantages that had inspired the match. Carolyn James
draws on unpublished correspondence between Isabella and Francesco
over twenty-nine years, as well as their correspondence with
relatives and courtiers, to show how their personal rapport evolved
and how they cooperated in the governance of a princely state.
Hitherto examined mainly from literary and religious perspectives,
and on the basis of legal evidence and prescriptive literature,
early modern marriage emerges here in vivid detail, offering the
reader access to aspects of the lived experience of an elite
Renaissance marital relationship. The study also contributes to our
understanding of the history of emotions, of politics and military
conflict, of childbirth, childhood and family life, and of the
history of disease and medicine.
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