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Cleofa Malatesta

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166: 230:, one of the last strongholds of Byzantine culture. After some difficult years of marriage, she finally gave in to local pressures and allowed it to be believed that she had converted to the Eastern rite. She had one daughter, 257:
In the 20th century, remains of the body of a woman clothed in western dress were found in a 15th-century grave in the church of Ag. Sophia of Mystras. It has been speculated that this grave may have been Cleofa's.
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Du Fay the Poet? Problems in the Texts of His Motets", Early Music History, Vol. 16, (1997), p. 102.
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on January 21, 1421, or sometime in 1422 in an arranged marriage that was part of an initiative of her uncle,
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J. Michael Allsen, "Intertextuality and Compositional Process in Two Cantilena Motets by Hugo de Lantins",
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Reconstruction of the dress and shoes of the "Mystras mummy", possibly Cleofe Malatesta's
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Silvia Ronchey, "Orthodoxy on Sale: The last Byzantine and the lost Crusade", in
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Review by Jaap van Benthem, Reviewed work: Dufay by David Fallows, in
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Alejandro Enrique Planchart, "The Early Career of Guillaume Du Fay",
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Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies
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Heinrich Besseler, "Neue Dokumente zum Leben und Schaffen Dufays",
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Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
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Cleofa died in 1433. Her death was commemorated with speeches by
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has been preserved written by the famous Renaissance composer
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1420 – died 1433) was an Italian noblewoman and the wife of
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On 20 August 1420, Cleofa left Italy embarking from
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Index

Theodore II Palaiologos
Issue
Helena Palaiologina
House
Malatesta
Malatesta IV Malatesta
Elisabetta da Varano
Theodore II Palaiologos
Despot of the Morea
Constantine XI
Byzantine emperor
Malatesta dei Sonetti
Pesaro
Elisabetta da Varano
Mystras
Pope Martin V
Ottoman Turks

Fano
Constantinople
Sophia of Montferrat
John VIII Palaiologos
motet
Guillaume Dufay
Vasilissa ergo gaude
βασίλισσα
Tra quante regione
Hugo de Lantins
Mystras
Peloponnese

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