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	The Visconti Book of Hours Finn's Fine Books Facsimile Book Catalogue
		Giangaleazzo‘s death in 1402 interrupted the lagging work, and it was resumed by Belbello da Pavia for Giangaleazzo‘s son, Filippo Maria, after he became Duke in 1412.
		Giangaleazzo Visconti was the most ambitious and probably the cleverest member of a powerful family.
		Giangaleazzo became the sole ruler of the County of Milan in 1385 only by disposing of his uncle, Bernabö, who was also his second wife‘s father.
	www.finns-books.com /visconti.htm (1531 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo Visconti (1351-1406) was the first Duke of Milan and he ruled the city for much of the early Renaissance.
		Giangaleazzo was a feared and hated tyrant of Milan from 1386 to 1406.
		Giangaleazzo's dreams were to come to naught, however, as he succumbed to a fever in 1406.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Giangaleazzo_Visconti (308 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo Visconti (1351-1402) was the first Duke of Milan and he ruled the city for much of the early Renaissance.
		Giangaleazzo was a feared and hated tyrant of Milan from 1386 to 1402.
		Giangaleazzo's dreams were to come to naught, however, as he succumbed to a fever in 1402.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /giangaleazzo_visconti.htm (334 words)

	Illustrious People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		1351) Son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Blanche of Savoy, Giangaleazzo married in 1360 Isabelle of Valois, daughter of King John II of France, receiving as her dowry the county of Vertus in Champagne and thus the title of 'Conte di Virtù' by which he was frequently known.
		In 1365, however, in a skilful and daring coup, Giangaleazzo seized his father-in-law, imprisoned or exiled his nephews, and reunited all the territories subject to the Visconti.
		For this reason his premature death has been portrayed as a tragedy by nationalist historians, and as a merciful deliverance by those others who emphasize the importance of the existence of numerous independent courts and cities in the creation of Renaissance culture.
	www.wga.hu /database/glossary/illustri/viscon_g.html (577 words)

	End of Europe's Middle Ages - The Visconti and Sforza in Milan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo Visconti's royal ambitions led him to expand Milanese control throughout most of Lombardy, east toward Venice and southward into the Papal States and Tuscany.
		Giangaleazzo Visconti died unexpectedly in 1402 just as he was beginning to mount his campaign against Florence.
		Having settled the situation, Sforza declared himself to be the successor to the Visconti dynasty through his wife and ruled as Duke of Milan until his death in 1466.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/bluedot/milan.html (345 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo Visconti (1351 - 1406) was the first Duke of Milan and he ruled the city for much of the early Renaissance.
		Visconti di Milano Breve storia dei Visconti con biografie delle principali figure della famiglia.
		Comune di Massino Visconti Sito ufficiale dell'amministrazione comunale con informazioni sulla giunta, il consiglio e gli uffici.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Giangaleazzo_Visconti.html (505 words)

	The Official Web Site of Suspense Novelist Ron Terpening
		Giangaleazzo Visconti founded the Certosa (which became a Carthusian monastery) as a family mausoleum and is entombed there in the south transept.
		Giangaleazzo took his time, studying, reading, adorning his palace in Pavia, until finally in 1385 he set out with a large entourage on a pilgrimage.
		Giangaleazzo entered the city in triumph, where he was welcomed as a liberator.
	www.ronterpening.com /extras/light_ex.htm (1056 words)

	Gian Galeazzo Visconti Biography / Biography of Gian Galeazzo Visconti Biography Biography
		Gian Galeazzo Visconti was born on Oct. 16, 1351.
		Visconti patronized writers and painters, and he improved the economy of his state with a system of canals for irrigation.
		Having become the most feared and powerful of Italian tyrants, Visconti was ready, in 1402, for the completion of his greatest enterprise, the conquest of the rest of Italy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-gian-galeazzo-visconti (779 words)

	The Recent History of Milan, and Current Powers within the Duchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo bought the title from the HRE in 1395, and consolidated his hold until the family line died out in AD1447.
		Giangaleazzo’s increasing domination of the region was centred upon his great command of the Hermetics within the area, especially the three most strategic covenants, based on the Po, within Milan (including the satellite centre at Pavia) and Fornovo, which he used as a base to spread his power.
		The rest of the family were unable to build upon this base, and when Giangaleazzo started his conquests he fuelled the Craftmason’s rhetoric of defending Italian liberty, which was to have such a large effect upon the Hermetics.
	www.btinternet.com /~paul.shawley/RecentHistoryofMilan.htm (777 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		He used the bounty of these conquests to buy the title of Duke from the (Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire) Holy Roman Emperor for the price of 100 000 Florins.
		The many obstacles to his success were (Large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork) Bologna and especially (A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center) Florence.
		The Florentine leaders, especially (Click link for more info and facts about Coluccio Salutati) Coluccio Salutati worked successfully to rally the people of Florence, but the Florentines were being taxed hard by famine, disease, and poverty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giangaleazzo_visconti.htm (376 words)

	152 (Världshistoria / Nya tiden 1500-1650) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Huset Visconti är otvifvelaktigt den mest glänsande tyrannfamilj, som funnits; i några representanter också den nesligaste, enär de i kampen om makten icke följde» utan till och med förhånade samvetets bud.
		Matteo Visconti blef riksvikarie genom Henrik VII (1311), Giangaleazzo hertig genom konung Wenzel (1395).
		Giangaleazzo tänkte nu verkligen på att i Florens låta kröna sig som konung af Italien, då en epidemi den 3 sept. 1402 bortryckte honom.
	www.runeberg.org /vrldhist/4/0182.html (750 words)

	Mantegazza - pafg14 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		AGNESE MANTEGAZZA Terre CHIGNOLO was born in 1350.
		GIANGALEAZZO VISCONTI DUCA MILANO was born in 1350.
		GABRIELE VISCONTI f LEGITTIMATO was born in 1386.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /ulamagni/mantegazz/pafg14.htm (241 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Giangaleazzo Visconti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Giangaleazzo Visconti - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Giangaleazzo Visconti.
		Here you will find more informations about Giangaleazzo Visconti.
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	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Giangaleazzo-Visconti.html (376 words)

	Poste Regie - Siena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		This was, in addition, a period in which the determination of the Florentines to conquer Siena became increasingly obvious.
		The Sienese attempted numerous solutions to their difficulties, and in 1399, despite the strength of the city's communal traditions, even resorted to the expedient of surrendering their city into the hands of Giangaleazzo Visconti of Milan.
		Visconti rule of the city lasted until 1404.
	www.posteregie.com /siena2.htm (204 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - - ARCHIVE - Ducal Court of Milan
		Galeazzo Visconti received (1395) the title of duke of Milan from the emperor, and under him the duchy became one of the most important states in Italy.
		The nobles, who had gathered round the Visconti, and who threatened to bring Ezzelino da Romano, the Ghibelline tyrant of Padua, into the city, were defeated by Martino, and 900 of their number were captured.
		Otto Visconti, archbishop of Milan (1262), the victor of Desio, became lord of Milan, and founded the house of Visconti, who ruled the city—except from 1302 to 131o—till 1447, giving twelve lords to Milan.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=1902361 (2050 words)

	Liber unUsualis
		The ruler of Milan during Ciconia’s time was Giangaleazzo Visconti, a very powerful and cruel man. Giangaleazzo was not afraid to use whatever means possible to retain control of and expand the region that he ruled, including imprisonment, torture, and murder of his rivals.
		In 1395, Antonello composed a complex and ornate madrigal in honor of Giangaleazzo’s coronation as Duke of Milan, Del glorioso titolo, and the ballata Più chiar che’l sol in honor of the 1399 wedding of Giangaleazzo’s niece and ward, Lucia.
		The Visconti and the Carrarese were often at war with each other and Ciconia’s reasons for departing to a rival city are unknown.
	www.sfems.org /liber04.htm (2050 words)

	Calligraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The text is based upon a sixteenth-century patent of arms, and then translated into 15th-century Milanese Italian, to suit her persona.
		Since her SCA surname is "Visconti", I elected to create it in the style of the Book of Hours commissioned by Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan.
		The recipient of the award was Sir Severin Visconti di Milano, so as with the above award, I felt that the style was appropriate.
	www.shipbrook.com /jeff/callig.html (265 words)

	Atlantian Scribe: Sophia of Falcon Cree and Derek of Connemara
		In the late fourteenth century the powerful Visconti family came to power over the Northern Italian city of Milan.
		The Visconti, and later their relatives the Sforsa, fashioned their courts at Milan and Pavia to compete with the magnificence of the Vatican Court in Rome.
		Giangaleazzo Visconti's own hunting dogs are painted next to his profile portrait, which is surrounded by a princely aura of pink and blue sun rays.
	scribe.atlantia.sca.org /gallery/Sophia (1534 words)

	Milanese Rulers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Married Bianca Maria Visconti, the illegitimate daughter of last Visconti ruler of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti (d.
		Giangaleazzo married Isabella of Aragon (a member of the ruling family of Naples) in 1491, and died three years later.
		He married Beatrice d'Este (sister of Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, and of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, consort of Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua) in 1491, although she died prematurely in 1497.
	www-class.unl.edu /ahis398b/classmats/milano/sforza.html (374 words)

	Engineering Failures of Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In the late fourteenth century, Florentine engineer Domenico di Benintendi,under the patronage of Giangaleazzo Visconti, the Milanese "prince of virtue," devised a plan to redirect the River Mincio in hopes of flooding the rival city of Mantua.
		Via a series of enormous dikes, such as one still extant in the town of Valeggio al Mincio, Benintendi aspired to drown Mantua under twenty feet of water.
		Giangaleazzo also had plans afoot to drain the great canals of Venice, crippling the city completely.
	www.stanford.edu /~broich/tamingnature/giangaleazzo.htm (171 words)

	Coluccio Salutati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite being severely outclassed by the Milanese forces, the Florentines succeeded in holding on to their independence over twelve years of war.
		Coluccio played an important part in rallying the Florentine people to defend their traditional liberty and republicanism.
		The war ended upon the death of Giangaleazzo in 1402, leaving Florence in a powerful position in northern Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coluccio_Salutati (277 words)

	Rutger Hauer Official Site
		It goes all the way back to 1387 and the years when Giangaleazzo Visconti, the ruler of Milan, laboured over my conception.
		Giangaleazzo paid in part, the Pope donated something, but most of the money came from collections by the people of Milan.
		Giangaleazzo's brilliance and my grandness brought us a time of peace and solidarity.
	www.rutgerhauer.org /stories/02june15.php (1591 words)

	The Lucca Codex - Codice Mancini
		Sul finire del primo decennio del XV secolo la raccolta prese la via del sud, forse entrando in contatto con le cappelle papali di Pisa e Bologna, per approdare quindi a Firenze, dove i brani dei compositori locali furono aggiunti nei fogli finali.
		The text accompanying the present edition examines the origins of the source and its content within the historical and cultural contexts of the north Italian courts of Giangaleazzo Visconti (Pavia) and Francesco Carrara (Padua).
		Towards the end of the first decade of the fifteenth century, the collection was taken south, possibly coming into contact with the papal chapels of Pisa and Bologna, before arriving in Florence where pieces by local composers were copied onto its final pages.
	www.lim.it /cataloghi/ars001lucca.htm (385 words)

	Court Baron Scroll based upon the Visconti Hours
		September 21st, A.S. This scroll is based upon the style of the Visconti Hours, a personal Book of Hours commissioned by Giangaleazzo Visconti in Milan, Italy, late in the 14th century.
		The hand used in the Visconti Hours is a modified Gothic, almost an Italian Rotunda, with early Versals used for the initial capitals.
		In the scroll, the same style is used and the panels are filled with flowers, "argent ermined vert" from the recipient's arms, and various symbols from the recipients awards and activities.
	www.zuggsoft.com /sca/documentation/barontimas.htm (1272 words)

	Eulogy for Giangaleazzo Visconti by MICHELINO DA BESOZZO
		Eulogy for Giangaleazzo Visconti by MICHELINO DA BESOZZO
		In 1403 Michelino da Besozzo illuminated a 'de luxe' copy of the funeral eulogy pronounced on Giangaleazzo Visconti.
		He appears to have survived up to 1450, and this illumination is followed by a very small group of paintings and manuscript.
	www.wga.hu /html/m/michelin/elogium.html (99 words)

	The Book of Hours and Our Lady
		Giangaleazzo (1351-1402) overthrew his uncle Bernabo in 1378 and proceeded to extend his rule by a series of brilliant military campaigns.
		Dei Grassi was already employed in building the new cathedral of Milan and the Carthusian Monastaery in Pavia, both of which Giangaleazzo had also commissioned.
		Giangaleazzo's son, Filippo Maria entrusted the decoration of the remaining pages to Belbello of Pavia around 1428, at the time of his marriage to Maria of Savoy.
	www.udayton.edu /mary/resources/bkhours.html (1543 words)

	Oldest Tarotcards. Origin of Tarot. Research of the history of Tarot.
		The first known Trionfi deck was done by the cooperation of 3 persons: Marziano da Tortona, Michelino da Besozzo and Filippo Maria Visconti.
		Michelino worked on an elogium for Giangalazzo in 1403, also for a genealogy of the Visconti.
		Teacher of Filippo Visconti till 1412, later in a dominant role participating in the administration.
	www.geocities.com /autorbis/michelino.html (197 words)

	8. De milanesiska krigen (Mikael Hörnqvist: Renässansen - mellan medeltid och modernitet)
		Bernabò Visconti - Giangaleazzo Viscontis farbror, hertig av Milano 1354-85, avbildad på Bonino da Campiones ryttarstaty från 1363
		Från milanesiskt håll hävdade man att hertigen Giangaleazzo Visconti var den nye Julius Caesar som skulle skänka fred, enhet och välstånd åt det splittrade Italien.
		Nu skulle Florens, det nya Rom, inspirerade av sina förfäders exempel, sätta stopp för Giangaleazzo, den nye Hannibal, och dennes tyranniska planer.
	www.idehist.uu.se /distans/ilmh/Ren/flor08.htm (546 words)

	Giangaleazzo Visconti or Gian Galeazzo Visconti
		Visconti (1324/27-1378), younger brother of the ill-famed, cruel Bernabò Visconti ( 1385); a further portrait of Galeazzo II.
		his second spouse: his cousin Caterina Visconti (1355-1404), third daughter of his uncle Bernabò Visconti; they married on 15 November 1380; further portraits of Caterina Visconti: Img.
		Dorothy Muir: A History of Milan under the Visconti.
	www.kleio.org /monalisa/g_eng/645.htm (277 words)

	Abbazia di Viboldone
		Segno di questa ricchezza è il completamento della chiesa e la sua decorazione con affreschi dalla metà alla fine del secolo: ultimi affreschi del periodo sono la Madonna e i Santi della prima campata destra, attribuito a Michelino da Besozzo, e l’incompiuta Trinità dell’abside.
		Si assiste ad una notevole espansione del territorio milanese fino a buona parte dell’Italia del nord e a parte del centro, con continue guerre e ostilità col papato, con Firenze e le altre potenze in campo.
		Con i Visconti a Milano vengono accolte le nuove tendenze artistiche provenienti sia dalla Toscana che dalla Francia, che influenzano le espressioni artistiche del periodo
	www.viboldone.it /sto_cronologia.html (623 words)

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