Battle of Ponza (1435)
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
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.