#ALSO THE FUCKING FUNERARY MONUMENT DELLA ROVERE COMMISSIONED
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SO this! is about this specific entry in Burchard's Diary--
The Diary of John Burchard, trans. A. H. Mathew
--and the APERITIO ORIS rite (the mouth thing they keep talking about), but it's also a little about Ascanio's friction with the Vatican and the della Rovere-Ascanio rivalry
Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals in the Catholic Church, Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, David Chambers
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
#ascanio sforza#giuliano della rovere#italian renaissance tag#the thing about long term rivals is eventually you know each other better than lovers ever could bc you've spent so much time#trying to shove each other down a flight of stairs. there was.#christ what was it. della rovere's price of reconcilliation with rodrigo was kicking ascanio out of the vatican. something like that#literally you could've asked for anything and you picked the head of ascanio sforza. that's commitment baby.#marriage vows have NOTHING on that. but ofc. they did reconcile. and della rovere did visit him daily to talk for that one summer#ALSO THE FUCKING FUNERARY MONUMENT DELLA ROVERE COMMISSIONED#WHAT'S WITH THE ROMANTIC NECROMANCY BUDDY. HELLO? HELLO. BANGING ON THE VATICAN DOORS. ANSWER ME!!!!#drawing tag
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