27.04.2023, 10:30-Book presentation: Eleonora d’Aragona. Pratiche di potere e modelli culturali nell’Italia del Rinascimento di Valentina Prisco (Viella, Roma 2022)

Laboratory activities

In person lecture:
Room 13, second floor, building D3

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Abstract
The volume comprehensively deals with the political biography of Eleonora d’Aragona duchess of Ferrara (1450-1493), a crucial figure, but still neglected, of the political network of Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century: daughter of King Ferrante of Aragon and nephew of the Magnanimous; mother of Isabella d’Este and of the younger Beatrice, wife of Ludovico il Moro; sister of the Queen of Hungary, Beatrice. The Duchess, straddling Naples and Ferrara, thanks to a directing humanistic education and a clear awareness of her responsibilities – in a word of her political and dynastic identity – was a fundamental intermediary in those typical passages of fifteenth-century political culture: as a lady of Ferrara, as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, that is to say in all the roles that her position in the Aragonese and Este dynastic network allowed her to exercise. We are faced with a particularly significant case of power-sharing in the context of the Italian principalities of the Renaissance.

Speaker

• Amalia Galdi
  University of Salerno
• Maria Rosaria Pelizzari
  University of Salerno
• Valentina Prisco
  Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages, Rome
• Alessandro Silvestri
  University of Salerno

Coordinator

Imma Petito
University of Salerno, Vrije Universiteit Brussels