In April 1479, the communities of the marquisate of Mantua pronounced for the first time a general oath of fealty to Federico Gonzaga, the third marquis, inaugurating a custom that was to be repeated with relative regularity in the following decades every time a Prince died. It was a practice which was fairly new for the Gonzago marquisate, at least in this capillary and general extension to the entire body of the State. The significance of an innovation of this kind deserves attention, as do the genesis and the partial forms that preceded this mature expression. This book comprises an edition of the entire related documentary corpus, complete with photographic reproductions of the individual documents, and preceded by a substantial introduction in which the event is described, placed in context and interpreted from various points of view.
University of Molise, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-7470-5554
Book Title
Il linguaggio del territorio fra principe e comunità
Book Subtitle
Il giuramento di fedeltà a Federico Gonzaga (Mantova 1479)
Authors
Isabella Lazzarini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2009
Copyright Information
© 2009 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-443-9
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-638-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-443-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-763-1
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079