The Letters from Italy by D. Lopo de Almeida
Abstract
This article aims to highlight the importance of epistolography in European diplomatic design. Through a textual and cultural hermeneutic of the letters written by D. Lopo de Almeida to King Afonso V in 1452, the aim is to understand the sender's thoughts, contextualising them in space and time, in relation to diplomatic and cultural relations between southern and northern Europe. In the Letters from Italy, D. Lopo de Almeida, in contrast to the experience of other European kingdoms, declares himself to be a defender of the courtly cultural formation transmitted to Portuguese lands in medieval times. This courtly formation is put to the test in the episode of the marriage of D. Leonor and Frederick III in Italy.
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