The courts as centres of cultural patronage
General Reading
Adamson, John, , in John Adamson (ed.), The Princely Courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture under the Ancien R茅gime: 1500-1750 (London, 2000), pp. 6-41.
Chambers, D.S., (ed. and trans.), Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance (London, 1970) [An important collection of primary sources in translation]
Clark, Leah R., Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge, 2018)
Cole, Alison, Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York, 2005)
Fantoni, Marcello, (Amsterdam, 2022)
Hollingsworth, Mary, Patronage in Renaissance Italy from 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London, 1994)
Hollingsworth, Mary, Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Italy (London, 1996)
Hollingsworth, Mary, (London, 2021)
Marina, Areli, '', I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 16 (2013), 363-75
McCall, Timothy, '', I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 16 (2013), 445-90
Panizza, Letizia, ed., Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (London, 2017)
Sparti, Barbara , , Dance Research 14 (1996), 42-61.
Ugolini, Paola, (Toronto, 2020)
Welch, Evelyn, Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500 (Oxford, 1997)
Bologna
Clarke, Georgia, 'Magnificence and the city: Giovanni II Bentivoglio and architecture in fifteenth-century Bologna', Renaissance Studies 13 (1999), 397–411.
Manca, Joseph, , Zeitschrift f眉r Kunstgeschichte 49.2 (1986), 147-64.
Wallace, William E., , Sixteenth Century Journal 10.3 (1979), 97-114.
Warren, Jeremy, , The Burlington Magazine 141 (1999), 216-25.
Ferrara
Dean, Trevor, 鈥�Notes on the Ferrarese Court in the Later Middle Ages鈥�, Renaissance Studies 3.4 (1989), 357–69.
Dean, Trevor, Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara: The Rule of the Este, 1350-1450 (Cambridge, 1988)
Driscoll, Kate, '', Renaissance Quarterly 77.4 (2024), 1134–83.
Ghirardo, Diane Yvonne, , The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60.4 (2001), 402-31. JSTOR
Gundersheimer, W.L., Ferrara: the style of a Renaissance despotism.
Hollingsworth, Mary, The Cardinal鈥檚 Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance court (London, 2004)
Looney, Dennis, and Deanna Shemek, Phaethon's children: the Este court and its culture in early modern Ferrara (Tempe, 2005)
Manca, Joseph, , Zeitschrift f眉r Kunstgeschichte 52.4 (1989), 522-38.
Manca, Joseph, , Artibus et Historiae 22 no. 43 (2001), 55-63.
Prizer, William F., , Journal of the American Musicological Society 38.1 (1985), 1-33.
Rosenberg, Charles M. 鈥樷��, Nexus Network Journal 1.1 (1999), 43-64.
Tuohy, Thomas, Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d鈥橢ste, 1471-1505, and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge, 1996)
Mantua
Bourne, Molly, '', Renaissance Studies 16/3 (2002), 303-305. Blackwell
Brown, Clifford M., and Anna Maria Lorenzoni, ' ', Renaissance Quarterly 49/2 (1996), 268-302.
Brown, Clifford Malcolm, Isabella d'Este in the Ducal Palace in Mantua (Rome, 2005)
Cashman, Anthony B., III, , Renaissance Studies 16.3 (2002), 355–365.
Chambers, D.S., and J. Martineau (eds.), Splendours of the Gonzaga.
Cockram, Sarah D. P., Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court (Farnham, 2013)
Fenlon, I., Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua.
Fenlon, Iain, , Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 103 (1976-1977), 90-105.
Lazzarini, Isabella, , Renaissance Studies 16.3 (2002), 318–29. Blackwell
Maurer, Maria F., (Amsterdam, 2019)
Maurer, Maria F., '', Renaissance Studies 30/3 (2016), 370–88
Prizer, William F., , Journal of the American Musicological Society 38.1 (1985), 1-33.
Prizer, William F., , The Journal of Musicology 17.1 (1999), pp. 10-49.
Sanders, Donald C., Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua (Lanham, MD, 2012)
San Juan, Rose Marie, , Oxford Art Journal 14.1 (1991), 67-78.
Shaw, Christine, Isabella d'Este: A Renaissance Princess (London, 2019)
Welch, Evelyn Samuels, , Renaissance Studies 16.3 (2002), 306–17. Blackwell
Milan
Lubkin, Gregory, (Berkeley, 1994)
Malaguzzi-Valeri, F., La corte di Ludovico Sforza.
Syson, Luke, , The Burlington Magazine 138 (1996), 300-08.
Welch, Evelyn Samuels, , The Art Bulletin 71.3 (1989), 352-75.
Welch, Evelyn Samuels, , Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1990), 163-84.
Welch, Evelyn Samuels, , Early Music History 12 (1993), 151-90.
Urbino
Clough, Cecil H., , Artibus et Historiae 16 issue 31 (1995), 19-50.
Clough, C.H., The Duchy of Urbino in the Renaissance.
Clough, Cecil H., , Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 36 (1973), 129-44.
Clough, C. H., 'Federigo da Montefeltro: The Good Christian Prince' Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 67/1 (1984), 293-348
Falvo, Joseph D., , MLN 101 (1986), 114-46.
Hofmann, Heinz, 'Literary Culture at the Court of Urbino during the Reign of Federico da Montefeltro', Humanistica Lovaniensia 57 (2008): 5–59.