TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernhardt,Elizabeth
TI  - Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna 
T2  - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
SN  - 9789048552870
U1  - 945.41092 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Bologna (Italy)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Kings and rules
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Italy
KW  - Women
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Italy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Renaissance Italy, Bentivoglio, Genevra Sforza, Women's History, Family History
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Illustrations, Tables, Figures, and Documents --; Abbreviations of Archives and Libraries --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Genevra Sforza de’ Bentivoglio (ca. 1441–1507) : Lost and Found in Renaissance Italy --; 2. Twice Bentivoglio: Genevra Sforza on the Marriage Market (1446–1454 and 1463–1464) --; 3. Genevra Sforza and Bentivoglio Family Strategies: Creating and Extending Kinship on a Massive Scale --; 4. Genevra Sforza in Her Own Words: Patron and Client Relationships from Her Correspondence --; 5. The Wheel of Fortune: Genevra Sforza and the Fall of the Bentivoglio (1506–1507) --; 6. Making and Dispelling Fake History: Genevra Sforza and Her ‘Black Legends’ (1506–present) --; Conclusions --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441–1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed twice there without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served her family by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their future alliances for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research conducted across Italy, this biography presents Genevra as the object of academic study for the first time. The book explores how Genevra’s life-story, filled with a multitude of successes appropriate for an elite fifteenth-century female, was transformed into a concordant body of misogynistic legends about how she destroyed the Bentivoglio and the city of Bologna
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552870?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552870
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048552870/original
ER  -