ARCHIVES
All translations of archival documents are by the author.
Florence State Archives: Pre-principality Medici Archive, Lorenzo de' Medici, 1474–87
Forlì Archives
Imola Archives
Lombard Historical Archives
Mantua State Archives: Gonzaga Archive
Milan State Archives: Sforza Archive, Potenze Estere
Naples State Archives: Private Archive Sforza Riario
Vatican Archives: Registri Garampi
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND MANUSCRIPTS
Ackerman, James. The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990
Acton, Harold. The Pazzi Conspiracy: The Plot Against the Medici. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979
Ady, Cecilia M. A History of Milan Under the Sforza, edited by Edward Armstrong. London: Methuen & Co., 1907
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Isabella D'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1473–1530: A Study of the Renaissance, vol. 1. New York: Dutton, 1905
Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta, and Flora Dennis. At Home in Renaissance Italy. London: V&A Publications, 2006
Aretino, Pietro. The Works of Aretino, vol. 2, translated and edited by Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926
Aries, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. New York: Vintage Books, 1962
Aroldi, A. M. Armie Armature Italiane. Milan: Bramante, 1961
Baini, L., and N. Giustozzi. Guide to the Castel Sant'Angelo. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2003
Bassani, Aureliano. Catharina: Racconto Storico. Imola (Bologna): La Mandragora, 1994
Bauman, Lisa Passaglia. Power and Image: Della Rovere Patronage in Late Quattrocento Rome. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, June 1990
Bellonci, Maria. Lucrezia Borgia. Milan: Mondadori, 1939
Beltrami, Luca. La Vita nel Castello di Milano al tempo degli Sforza. Pamphlet. Milan: Tipografia Umberto Allegretti, 1900
Berger, Frederik. Die Madonna von Forlì. Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 2002
Bernardi, Andrea. Cronache Forlivesi dal 1476 al 1517. Bologna: Deputazione Storia per la Romagna, 1895–97 (Translations by the author)
Beuf, Carlo. Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Prince. Toronto and New York: Oxford University Press, 1942
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Famous Women, edited and translated by Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001
Bradford, Sarah. Lucrezia Borgia. New York: Penguin, 2004
Braschi, Angelo. Caterina Sforza. Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli, 1965
Braudel, Fernand. The Structure of Everyday Life, vol. 1. New York: Harper & Row, 1985
Breisach, Ernst. Caterina Sforza: A Renaissance Virago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967
Brogi, Cecilia. Caterina Sforza: La Più Bella, la Più Audace e Fiera, la Più Gloriosa Donna d'Italia, Pari Se Non Superiore ai Grandi Condottieri del Suo Tempo. Arezzo: Alberti, 1996
Brown, David Alan, ed. Virtue and Beauty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001
Bruni, Lionardo. History of the Florentine People, vol. 1, books 1–4, edited and translated by James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001
———. Opere Letterarie. Torino: Einaudi, 1996
Burchard, Johann. The Diary of John Burchard of Strasbourg, Bishop of Orta and Civita Castellana: Pontifical Master of Ceremonies to Their Holinesses Sixtus P. P. IV, Innocent P. P. VIII, Alexander P. P. VI, Pius P. P. III, and Julius P. P. II, A.D. 1483–1506,translated by Arnold Harris Mathew. London: Francis Griffiths, 1910
Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York and London: Penguin, 1990
Burriel, A. Vita di Caterina Sforza. Bologna: San Tomaso D'Aquino, 1795
Capponi, Gino. Storia della Repubblica di Firenze, vol. 2A, chap. 5. Florence, 1888
Castiglione, Baldassarre. The Book of the Courtier: The Singleton Translation. New York: Norton Critical Editions, 2002
Caterina Sforza: Una Donna del Cinquecento. Catalog of the exhibition, February 5–May 21, 2000. Imola: La Mandragora, 2000
Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci. London: Penguin, 1988
Clark, Nicholas. Melozzo da Forlì: Pictor Papalis. New York: Harper & Row, 1990
Cobelli, Leone. Cronache Forlivesi delle Fondazione della citta fino al 1498. Bologna: Regia, 1874 (Translations by the author)
Cole, Alison. Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts. New York: Harry Abrams, 1995
Cortini, G. F. La Madonna di Piratello presso Imola. Pamphlet. Imola: Galeati, 1939
Dante Alighieri. Inferno, translated by Robert Pinsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994
DeVries, Joyce Carol. Power, Gender, and Representation in the Italian Renaissance Court: The Cultural Patronage of Caterina Sforza. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2002
Diary of Pope Sixtus IV: 1479–1484. Asque ad Ejus Obit. Vatican Archives: Registri Garampi 1435–1505, BXLVIIII
Durant, Will. The Renaissance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953
Foresti, Jacopo Filippo. De Plurimis Claris Selectisque Mulieribus. Ferrara: Lorenzo de Rubeis, 1497
Frank, Isabelle Jennifer. Melozzo da Forlì and the Rome of Pope Sixtus IV. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1991
Frick, Carole Collier. Dressing in Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
Fusero, Clemente. The Borgias. New York: Praeger, 1972
Gherardi, Johannes. Il Diario Romano, in L. Muratori, Rerum Italicorum Scriptores, N.S. XXIII pt. iii. Citta del Castello: E. Carusi, 1904
Ghinzoni, Pietro. L'inquinto, Ossia una Tassa Odiosa del Secolo XV, series 2, vol. 1, fascicolo 3. 1884. Lombard Historical Archives
Giacometti, Massino, ed. The Sistine Chapel: The Art, the History, and the Restoration. New York: Harmony, 1986
Gottschewski, Adolf. Die Porträts der Caterina Sforza. Strasbourg: J. H. E. Heitz, 1907
———. Uber die Porträts der Caterina Sforza und über den Bildhauer Vincenzo Onofri. Strasbourg: J. H. E. Heitz, 1908
Graziani, Natale. Fra Medioevo ed l'Eta Moderna: li Signoria dei Riario e di Caterina Sforza, in Storia di Forli, vol. 2, [>]. Bologna: Nuova Alfa Ed., 1990
Graziani, Natale, and Gabriella Venturelli. Caterina Sforza. Milan: Mondadori, 2001
Gregorius, Ferdinand. The History of Rome in the Middle Ages, translated by Annie Hamilton. London: Bell & Sons, 1894–1906
Guicciardini, Francesco. Storia d'Italia IV–V, Storie Fiorentine, ed. Bergamo. Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1998
Hartt, Frederick, and David Wilkins. The History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2002
Hibbert, Christopher. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall. London: Allen Kane, 1974
Hollingsworth, Mary. Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century. London: John Murray, 1994
Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford History of Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
Holmes, Megan. Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999
Ianziti, Gary. Humanistic Historiography Under the Sforzas: Politics and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century Milan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Infessura, Stefano. Il Diario di Stefano Infessura, ed. Oreste Tommasini. Roma L'Istituto Storico Italiano Palazzo dei Lincei, 1890 (Translations by the author)
———. I Diarii Romani. Vatican Archives: Registri Garampi 1435–1505, BIIII L89 (Translations by the author)
Jansen, Sharon. The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002
Kelly, John N. D. Vita dei Papi. Alessandria: Piemme, 1989
Larner, John. Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216–1380. New York: Longman, 1890
Lee, Edgmont. Sixtus, His Court, and Rome: Un Pontificato e una Citta, edited by Massimo Miglio. Acts of the conference in Rome, December 3–7, 1984. Vatican City: Vatican School of Paleography and Archives, 1986
Levi, Pisetzky R. Storia del costume in Italia, vol. 2. Milan: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1965–69
Levy, Allison M. Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Hampshire, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003
Lubkin, Gregory. Florence and Milan: Acts of Two Conferences at Villa I Tatti, 1982–1984. Florence: Italia Editrice, 1989
———. A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994
———. Strategic Hospitality: Foreign Dignitaries at the Court of Milan, 1466–1476. Burnaby, BC: 1986
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, reprinted in Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings of Machiavelli, translated by Harvey Mansfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
———. Florentine Histories, translated by Laura F. Banfield and Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988
———. Legazioni, Commissarie, Scritti di Governo a cura di Fredi Chiappelli. Bari: G. Laterza, 1971
———. The Prince, translated and edited by Peter Bondanella. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
———. The Prince, in The Portable Machiavelli, translated by Ellis Farnsworth. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1978
Majanlahti, Anthony. The Families Who Made Rome. London: Random House, 2006
Marinelli, Lodovico. "Le Rocche di Imola," in Atti e memorie della Reale Duputazione di Storia per la Provincia di Romagna, series 4, vol. 22. Bologna: Luigi Parma, 1931–32
Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. London: Oxford University Press, 2004
Merkley, Paul and Lora. Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court. Turnhout, Belgium: BREPOLS, 1999
Mettica, Paola. "La Societa Forlivese del '400,'" edited by Castrocaro Zauli. Forlì: Camera di Commercio Forlì, March 1983.
Mezzamonaco, Vittorio, and Sergia Spada. "Gennaio 1500: La fine di una Signoria: Le Ultime Giorni di Caterina Sforza," Le Pie, 1989, no. 1, [>]
Milone, Marinella Festa. "Palazzo Riario Altemps," in Quaderni, no. 24, 1977–1978, [>]
Monti, Attilio. "La Rocca di Ravaldino," Forum Livii, Anno II n.1–2 gen-apr. 1927, [>]
———. "Una Visita al castello di Caterina Sforza," Le Pie, 1927, vol. 12, [>]
Murphy, Caroline. The Pope's Daughter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
Novielli, Valeria. Caterina Sforza: Una Donna del Cinquecento: Storia e Arte tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Imola (Bologna): La Mandragora, 2000
Oliva, Fabio. Caterina Sforza. Forlì: Casali Ed., 1821
Pasini, Adamo. Breve Storia del Madonna del Fuoco. Forlì: Centro Studi per Il Movimento Cattolico Forlivesi, 1982
Pasolini, Pier Desiderio. Caterina Sforza. Three volumes. Rome: Loescher, 1893 (Translations by the author)
———. Caterina Sforza: Nuovi Documenti. Bologna: Tipografia A. Garagnani, 1897
Pastor, Ludwig van. The Lives of the Popes, vol. 4, edited by Dom Ernest Graf. Farnham, UK: Lund Humphries, 1957
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Rachet, Guy. Catherine Sforza: La Dame de Forlì. Paris: Denoël, 1987
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Rossi, Gian Giacomo. Vita di Giovanni dei Medici (a cura di V. Bramanti). Rome: Salerno Ed., 1996
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Rowdon, Maurice. Lorenzo the Magnificent. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974
Ruda, Jeffery. Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work. London: Phaidon, 1993
Santi, Simone. Fra' Girolamo Savonarola. Florence: Le Lettere, 2006
Santoro, Caterina. Gli Sforza. Milan: Editori Associati, 1994
———. I Registri delle Lettere Ducali del Periodo Sforzesco. Forlì: Archivio Storico Civico Castello Sforzesco, 1961
Sanuto, Marino. I Diarii. Venice: Marco Visentini, 1903
Schaivo, Armando. "Ritratto di Gerolamo Riario in Vienna," Studi Romani, 1969, vol. 17, n. 3, [>]
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Sciafe, Walter. Florentine Life During the Renaissance. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002
Sforza, Caterina. Ricettario di Bellezza, edited by Luigi Pescasio. Castiglione delle Stiviere: Wella Italiana, 1971
Smyth, Craig Hugh, and GianCarlo Garfagnini, eds. Florence and Milan: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two conferences at Villa I Tatti, 1982–1984, organized by Sergio Bertelli, Nicolai Rubinstein, and Craig Hugh Smyth. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1989
Squadrilli, Tina. Castel Sant'Angelo: Una Storia Lunga Diciannove secoli. Rome: Newton and Compton, 2000
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Syson, Luke, and Dora Thornton. Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy. London: British Museum Press, 2001
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Viroli, Maurizio. Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989
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Young, G. F. The Medici. New York: Random House, 1930