Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga

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In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light on a long misunderstood relationship and shows the couple's strategic teamwork in action. Drawing on largely unpublished archival material, she illuminates tactics of collaboration and double-dealing. She reveals sharing of authority, behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity, epistolary practices and dissimulation, network-building, sexual politics and seduction, court rivalries, Machiavellian intrigues and assassinations.