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Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power - Renaissance Art (Hardback) Book cover type:Hardcover Melanie loves schoolPublished: 01 02 2016 In this authoritative study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua and Milan. The princes who ruled these city states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote their legitimacy and authority. Major artists and architects, from Mantegna and Pisanello to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci, were