The paper analyses the role of Eleonora d’Aragona, daughter of Giovanni, duke of Athens and Neopatria, and wife of Guglielmo Peralta, count of Caltabellotta and vicar of the Kingdom. Protagonist of the Sicilian history in the second half of the fourteenth century, she was constant and privileged referent of kings and intermediary in relationships between the two Martino and Peralta. She intervened in political life, she administered with caution and astuteness the dominion created with her husband. She was author of family fortunes when planned alliances through contemplated nuptial choices and when she became guardian of the underage granddaughters and managed and safeguarded the considerable estates in the Val di Mazara.
Il saggio ricostruisce il ruolo di Eleonora d’Aragona, figlia di Giovanni duca di Atene e Neopatria e moglie di Guglielmo Peralta conte di Caltabellotta e vicario del Regno. Protagonista della storia dell’isola nella seconda metà del XIV secolo, fu referente costante e privilegiata dei regnanti e intermediaria nei rapporti tra i due Martino e i Peralta, intervenne nella vita politica, amministrò con oculatezza e sagacia la signoria creata dal e con il marito, fu artefice delle sorti familiari quando pianificò alleanze attraverso ponderate scelte matrimoniali e quando si trovò, come tutrice delle nipoti minori, a gestire e a salvaguardare il considerevole patrimonio fondiario esteso per buona parte del Val di Mazara.
Russo Maria Antonietta, (2017). El papel ejercido en la esfera pública y privada por la infanta Eleonora de Aragón en la Sicilia del siglo XIV. In H. Gallego Franco, M.d.C. García Herrero (a cura di), Autoridad, poder e influencia: mujeres que hacen historia (pp. 359-373). Barcelona : Icaria editorial.
El papel ejercido en la esfera pública y privada por la infanta Eleonora de Aragón en la Sicilia del siglo XIV
Russo Maria Antonietta
2017-01-01
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The paper analyses the role of Eleonora d’Aragona, daughter of Giovanni, duke of Athens and Neopatria, and wife of Guglielmo Peralta, count of Caltabellotta and vicar of the Kingdom. Protagonist of the Sicilian history in the second half of the fourteenth century, she was constant and privileged referent of kings and intermediary in relationships between the two Martino and Peralta. She intervened in political life, she administered with caution and astuteness the dominion created with her husband. She was author of family fortunes when planned alliances through contemplated nuptial choices and when she became guardian of the underage granddaughters and managed and safeguarded the considerable estates in the Val di Mazara.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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