Category

15th-century Italian women

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Lucrezia Borgia

Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480-1519)

Lisa del Giocondo

subject of the Mona Lisa

Blanche I of Navarre

Queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of Sicily

Bianca Maria Sforza

Holy Roman Empress, Presumptive crown princess of Hungary

Foundress of the Ursulines

Joanna II of Naples

Queen of Naples (1373-1435)

Simonetta Vespucci

Italian noblewoman

Beatrice d’Este

duchess of Milan and Bari

Beatrice of Naples

Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia

Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans, a younger brother of Charles VI of France

Vannozza dei Cattanei

mistress to Pope Alexander VI

wife of Lorenzo de' Medici

Isabella of Naples

Italian duchess of Milan (1470-1524)

Bianca Maria Visconti

Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468

Ippolita Maria Sforza

Italian physician

Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara

Neapolitan noble woman (1450-1493); Duchesses of Ferrara

Eleanor of Arborea

queen regnant (monarch) of Arborea in Sardinia

Lucrezia de' Medici

Italian noblewoman and member of the Medici family

Cecilia Gallerani

mistress of Italian noble Ludovico Sforza

Elisabetta Gonzaga

sister of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and by marriage with Guidobaldo da Montefeltro the Duchess of Urbino

first wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan

Caterina Visconti

Duchess of Milan (1361 – 1404), second wife of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan

Maddalena de' Medici

Isabella, Princess of Taranto

Queen consort of Naples and suo jure Princess of Taranto

Alfonsina Orsini

Regent of the Republic of Firenze (1472-1520)

Barbara of Brandenburg

Marchioness of Mantua

Sancha of Aragon

Princess of Squillace, illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples

Duchess of Milan

Italian mistress and model of Raphael

Mary of Enghien

Royal Consort of Naples

Constance Calenda

Italian surgeon

Battista Sforza

Duchess of Urbino

Parisina Malatesta

Marie of Savoy, Duchess of Milan

Joanna of Naples

Royal Consort of Naples; lived 1478–1518

Lucrezia Donati

15th-century Italian noble

Caterina Gattilusio

Byzantine empress

Bianca de' Medici

Italian noblewoman (1445-1505)

Duchess of Athens

Elisabetta Visconti

Duchess of Bavaria

Contessina de' Medici

Italian noblewoman, daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Italian noblewoman

Fioretta Gorini

Italian noble (1453–1478)

Paola Malatesta

Italian noblewoman

Charlotte of Naples

Princess of Naples

Pomellina Fregoso

Lady Consort of Monaco

Anglesia Visconti

queen consort of Cyprus, wife of king Janus of Cyprus

Agnese del Maino

Milanese noblewoman and the mistress of Filippo Maria Visconti

Mary of Lusignan, Queen of Naples

Queen of Naples

Ricciarda da Saluzzo

first wife of King Frederick IV of Naples and Savoy royal

Costanza da Varano

Italian humanist and scholar

Ludovica Albertoni

Italian Franciscan tertiary and blessed

Lucrezia Landriani

mistress of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan

Lucrezia d'Alagno

woman of noble birth with whom King Alphonso V of Naples had fallen in love in 1448

Margaret of Savoy, Countess of Saint-Pol

Princess of Savoy, marchioness consort of Montferrat

Constance Chiaramonte