The art of expenditure
The court of Paola Malatesta Gonzaga in fifteenth‐century Mantua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11499497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelyn Welch (0000-0001-7320-2680, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 306-317 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1213 • E-ISSN: 1477-4658 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1477-4658.00018 |
| OpenAlex | W2159139480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The paper draws on four surviving account books to examine the way a female court functioned during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The documents, which have never received detailed attention, record Paola Malatesta Gonzaga's income and expenditure over an almost twenty‐year period, revealing her close attention to her land, estates, and the welfare of her famiglia. They also provide considerable new information for Paola's important, and now almost entirely lost, patronage of religious institutions in Mantua. From her previous historiographic role as the wife of Mantua's first marquis, Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, or as the mother of Ludovico and Cecilia Gonzaga, Paola emerges as an energetic, ambitious and culturally sensitive figure whose biography deserves re‐examination
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Fifteenth · Period (music · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin · Wife · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |