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«Drento arichire i suoi, fuora aver credito». Opinioni sulle “virtù” del principe a Milano nell’età di Ludovico il Moro

Autore: Letizia Arcangeli
In: Medioevo milanese. 3
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Abstract

Was there a general agreement, in spite of deep socio-political differences, about the proper qualities of a good prince in late fifteenth century Milan? To answer this question, some clues can be gathered from diplomatic correspondence in times of crisis, as well as from the writings of ghibelline partisans, such as Donato Bossi, Giovanni Pietro Cagnola, Bernardino Corio, and Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti. Rather than on magnificence and international relations, pillars of Ludovico il Moro’s self-legitimation, in such sources the emphasis was laid instead on fides and humanitas. Such virtues were mentioned in humanistic treatises as well as in Sforza’s propaganda. They were also evoked in the citizens’ claims to the prince. In the latter, however, such appeals seemed rooted in a more radical contractualism.