TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Between friends? Two letters of Ippolita Sforza to Lorenzo de’ Medici
JO  - Renaissance studies
A1  - Bryce, Judith
SP  - 340
EP  - 365
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0269-1213
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00420.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -