@article{925157,
      author = {Decembrio, Pier Candido, and Ianziti, Gary, and Zaggia,  Massimo,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/925157},
      title = {Lives of the Milanese tyrants /},
      abstract = {The two works published in this volume were written at  different times and under widely different circumstances.  They also represent two very different moments in the  career of their author, the once famed but now too often  forgotten Milanese humanist Pier Candido Decembrio  (1399-1477). The first work--a life of the Duke of Milan  Filippo Maria Visconti (1392-1447)--was essentially a  product of Decembrio's twenty-eight years of service, from  1419 to 1447, as secretary, envoy, and personal literary  factotum to Duke Filippo Maria and his advisors: "The  picture of the fifteenth century would be incomplete  without this unique biography, which is characteristic down  to its minutest details." The second work published here  has attracted much less acclaim. It is an account of the  deeds in arms of the condottiere Francesco Sforza  (1401-1466), who through a combination of guile, force, and  sheer willpower managed to secure for himself and his  immediate heirs the succession to the Duchy of Milan.  Decembrio wrote this second biography in the early 1460s,  at a critical moment in his career.--},
      recid = {925157},
      pages = {liii, 339 pages ;},
}