@article{ref1,
title="Between friends? Two letters of Ippolita Sforza to Lorenzo de’ Medici",
journal="Renaissance studies",
year="2007",
author="Bryce, Judith",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="340-365",
abstract="This article examines aspects of the relationship of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Ippolita Sforza, Duchess of Calabria, through a close reading of two familiar letters by the latter dating from 1480 and 1486. The reading takes into account the respective political contexts of these letters – the end of the War of the Pazzi Conspiracy and of the Barons’ Revolt respectively – but seeks above all to use them to explore the nature of a ‘friendship’ complicated by the political and dynastic agendas of the two individuals as well as by issues of status and, particularly, of gender.<p />",
language="",
issn="0269-1213",
doi="10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00420.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00420.x"
}