Antonia Malatesta of Cesena
Antonia Malatesta of Cesena, also known as Antonia Malatesta of Rimini, was a Duchess of Milan by marriage to Giovanni Maria Visconti. She was the Regent of Milan in the interim after the death of her spouse in 1412.
She was the daughter[1] (or possibly the niece[2]) of Carlo I Malatesta, Lord of Cesena, Fano, Pesaro, and Rimini. To help ally himself with the House of Malatesta, Giovanni Maria Visconti, the Duke of Milan married Antonia in the city of Brescia[1][3] in 1408. They had no issue.[4]
After Giovanni Maria’s assassination in 1412, the succeeding Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, permitted Antonia to continue sharing the governance of the duchy for a few months.[5] Although she soon retired to Cesena, she retained her title, Duchess of Milan.[5]
In art
- Antonia Malatesta with her husband, Giovanni Maria Visconti, depicted as Mary and the child Jesus
- A portrait of Antonia at the Certosa (a Carthusian monastery, north of Pavia) and a portrait of her husband[6]
In literature
References
- ^ a b Tonini, Luigi (1884). Rimini (in Italian). Vol. 5. Rimini: Orfanelli e Grandi. p. 22. OCLC 35300205. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ Verri, Pietro (1834) [First published 1783]. Storia di Milano: In cui si narrano le vicende della cittla incominciando dai pilu rimoti principi sino alla fine del dominio de' Visconti (in Italian). Vol. 1. Milano. p. 503. OCLC 185598701. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ Adams, John (1794). A defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America, against the attack of M. Turgot in his letter to Dr. Price, dated the twenty-second day of March, 1778. London: John Stockdale. p. 154. OCLC 2678599. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
Antonia.
- ^ Rossi, Antonio Domenico (1830). Ristretto di storia patria ad uso de'Piacentini (in Italian). Maino. p. 245. OCLC 163149045. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ a b Jones, P.J. (1974). The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State: a political history. London: Cambridge University Press. p. 155. hdl:2027/heb.01211. OCLC 296420840.
- ^ Campo, Antonio; et al. (1642). Historia Delle Vite De' Duchi, Et Duchesse Di Milano: Con i loro veri Ritratti cavati al Naturale (in Italian). Milano: Ghisolfi. pp. 4–5. OCLC 245786904. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ Sabatini, Raphael (1926). Bellarion the fortunate: a romance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 1170948.
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