ABSTRACT
The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe is the ideal reference guide. It fills a gap by providing an authoritative but accessible reference on political, economic, religious, social, as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. It contains information on all major topics including the church, war and diplomacy, civic life, learning and letters, printing, the economy, science and technology, the arts, across Europe and the wider world. Aug: Arrival in the kingdom of Naples of Alfonso 'the Magnanimous', king of Aragon and Sicily, adopted as heir to Giovanna II, last of the so-called first Neopolitan House of Anjou; between 1420 and 1434 Louis III, duke of Anjou, campaigned for the Angevin cause in Naples. Year of military preparations for the final Ottoman assault on Constantinople. Year in which the 'calamities of Italy' began with Charles VHI's invasion. City of Valencia in revolt due to famine and in reaction to the policies of the viceroy Diego Hurtado de Mendoza;.
