Battle of Ponza (1435)

Battle of Ponza
Date August 5, 1435[1]
Location near Gaeta, Italy
Result Genoese capture of Alfonso V of Aragon and John II of Aragon
Belligerents
Genoese, allied with René of Anjou

The naval battle of Ponza took place on August 5, 1435. The battle resulted in the Genoese defeating and capturing Alfonso V of Aragon, his brother John II of Aragon, and all the nobles of Aragon[2][3][4] Another of Alfonso's brothers, Pedro, managed to escape.[5]

Aftermath

Alfonso and John were both taken as a prisoner to Milan, but Alfonso managed to convince Filippo Maria Visconti to withdraw his support for René of Anjou, and both were released to their brother Pedro.[3][6][7][8]

Popular culture

The battle gained fame as the setting for Indigo Lopez de Mendoza (the Marquis de Santillana) poem La comedieta de Ponza.[2][9][10]

References

  1. ^ Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard (1901). A history of the Italian republics: being a view of the origin, progress and fall of Italian freedom. Longmans, Green. p. xxi. http://books.google.com/books?id=PbAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR21. 
  2. ^ a b Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde (1853). Roscoe, Thomas. ed. Historical view of the literature of the south of Europe. 2 (4th ed.). H. G. Bohn. p. 161. http://books.google.com/books?id=DJEZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA161. 
  3. ^ a b Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard (1901). A history of the Italian republics: being a view of the origin, progress and fall of Italian freedom. Longmans, Green. p. 229. http://books.google.com/books?id=PbAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229. 
  4. ^ The universal cyclopaedia. D. Appleton. 1900. p. 464. http://books.google.com/books?id=kjLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA464. 
  5. ^ Merriman, Roger Bigelow (1918). The rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New. 1. Macmillan. p. 420. http://books.google.com/books?id=whZpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA420. 
  6. ^ Williams, Henry Smith (1907). The Historians' History of the World: Italy. The Times. p. 668. http://books.google.com/books?id=a_QLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA668. 
  7. ^ Williams, Henry Smith (1908). The Historians' History of the World: Italy. Hooper & Jackson. p. 668. http://books.google.com/books?id=D7EVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA668. 
  8. ^ Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (1920). A short history of the Italian people from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. Putnam. p. 235. http://books.google.com/books?id=km8fAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA247. 
  9. ^ Pérez, Janet; Ihrie, Maureen (2002). The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: N-Z. 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 031332445X, ISBN 9780313324451. http://books.google.com/books?id=HSickNYNdQkC&pg=PA548. 
  10. ^ Gerli, E. Michael; Armistead, Samuel G. (2003). Medieval Iberia: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 518. ISBN 0415939186, ISBN 9780415939188. http://books.google.com/books?id=ra9BtjLRNMsC&pg=PA518.