The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms_ The Struggle for Dominion, 1200-1500

THE WESTERN MEDITERRAI'\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 house of Foix and was not united to the rest of Spain until the early sixteenth c ...

ALFONSO THE MAGNANIMOUS AND THE FALL OF ANJOU the early fifteenth century: to the indecisiveness of the highly susceptible Queen ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRA.I\'EA.N KINGDOMS 1200-1.500 to the cult of Arthur and the medieval heroes as he was to the classical hum ...

Chapter 10 ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 FERRANTE OF NAPLES King Ferrante or Ferdinand of Naples, whose long reign stretche ...

THE WESTERN l\IEDITERRA:\EAN KINCDOl\IS 1 :200-1 'lOO This appalling reputation has its origins in the violent con- troversies t ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 seized the chance of Alfonso's death to relaunch an inva- sion of Naples, by way of Genoa, bu ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERR\l\'EAN KINGDOMS 1200-l!'iOO means to dominate all of Italy. Several times Ferrante was on the verge of be ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 behaviour, toasting the health of someone he had resolved to kill; yet this was also a messag ...

THE WESTER.l\J MEDITERRANEAl\' Kll\'CDOMS 1200-1!100 Yet the price of friendship for Florence was open papal enmity after years ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 that had sanctioned his succession to the throne; and disputes with the Holy See, over border ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 thousand (including all the males in the town) were reported to have been put to ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 145R-94 from Spain and Sicily, at a time when Naples was struggling with an outbreak of plague.^1 -" ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEA!\ KINGDOMS 1~00-1!100 documented; there, north Italian businessmen congregated in sizeable numbers, and ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 14.~H-94 sculptor Guido Mazzoni, whose life-size terracotta depiction of the entombment of Christ in ...

THE WESTER.'l MEDITERRANE.\:--J KI:--JGDOMS 1:200-1'100 librarian Giovanni Brancati built up a splendid collection of books, inc ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 to recover Naples and to launch from there a crusade for the recovery of Constantinople and j ...

THE WESTERN MEOITERRA.NEA!\ KINGDOMS 1200-1500 on a foreknowledge of the relationship between Spain's two main parts in the sixt ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 Jews (or 'New Christians') and Old Christians. Ferdinand was of Castilian descent, and the me ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 1486, he was merely doing what earlier kings had promised to do. Ferdinand had no ...

ARAGON IN ITALY AND SPAIN, 1458-94 certainly displaced a substantial population of artisans.^30 Southern Italy and eventually th ...