Biographies & Memoirs

Sources

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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Petrassi, Marco. "I Fasti di Sisto IV," Capitolium, 1973, vol. 48, n. 1, [>]

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Ricci, Corrado. "Il Ritratto di Caterina Sforza," Forum Livii, 1928, [>]

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Rossi, Sergio, and Stefano Valeri, eds. Le Due Rome del Quattrocento: Melozzo Antonio e la Cultura Artistica del'400 Romano. International conference, "La Sapienza," University of Rome, February 21–24, 1996. Rome: Lithos Editrice, 1997

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, [>]

Schmarsow, August. Melozzo da Forlì. Berlin: HAAC, 1886

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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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