La libertà dei ghibellini. Fazione e dialettica costituzionale a Milano (secoli XIV e XV)

Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti’s poem De Paulo e Daria amanti is famous among historians especially for some of his verses on the subject of factions. The essay aims to illustrate the specific position taken by the poet in this regard, placing it within a broad reconstruction of what it meant in Milan to belong to the ghibelline party (14th-15th centuries). This sheds light on the debate that throughout the whole Visconti-Sforza period most deeply divided Milanese society – the debate about the nature of the ducal power and the way in which it was to be exercised.