16-06-2017, 09:43 PM
(16-06-2017, 03:34 PM)Vonologia wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Would like to start a thread to discuss the House of Visconti.
Particularly interested in Gian Galeazzo (1351-1402) and his daughter Vanentina Visconti (the Duchess of Orleans)
and any relationship to the VMS.
I was interested enough in this to read several historical novels based on this time period, especially those set around Lombardy and northern Italy and the Sforza, Visconti, and d'Este families and their predecessors.
I'm mostly a nonfiction reader (probably 90% of my reading), and historical novels are written mainly for plot and storytelling, but they can also provide a certain feeling for the time, place, and relationships between significant people if one reads about the same subject from the point of several different writers. Some of the historical novelists travel to the places they're writing about and spend years doing research.
For anyone who's interested, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does quite a good job of organizing the books according to subject matter and listing related subject matter.