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The path of pleasantness

Ippolito II d'Este between Ferrara, France and Rome

By: Giulia Vidori

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The path of pleasantness

Ippolito II d'Este between Ferrara, France and Rome

By: Giulia Vidori

Ippolito II d’Este (1509-1572), cardinal and prince of Ferrara, played a crucial role in shaping the political and cultural connections between Italy and France. Seen by his contemporaries as staunchly ‘French’, his life rather followed a difficult balance between the political and spatial entities – Rome, Paris, and Ferrara – through which he continuously moved and from which he derived his power. Following his career as cardinal protector of the Valois crown, royal administrator of Siena on behalf of Henry II, and papal legate to France on the eve of the Wars of Religion, this book argues that Ippolito’s apparent diplomatic access ultimately weakened his family’s position in Italy and left it ill-equipped to compete in the changing politics of the peninsula.

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Firenze University Press

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885518265X

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9788855182652

The path of pleasantness

Ippolito II d'Este between Ferrara, France and Rome

By: Giulia Vidori

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The path of pleasantness

Ippolito II d'Este between Ferrara, France and Rome

By: Giulia Vidori

Ippolito II d’Este (1509-1572), cardinal and prince of Ferrara, played a crucial role in shaping the political and cultural connections between Italy and France. Seen by his contemporaries as staunchly ‘French’, his life rather followed a difficult balance between the political and spatial entities – Rome, Paris, and Ferrara – through which he continuously moved and from which he derived his power. Following his career as cardinal protector of the Valois crown, royal administrator of Siena on behalf of Henry II, and papal legate to France on the eve of the Wars of Religion, this book argues that Ippolito’s apparent diplomatic access ultimately weakened his family’s position in Italy and left it ill-equipped to compete in the changing politics of the peninsula.

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Page Count

208

Publisher

Firenze University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

885518265X

ISBN 13

9788855182652