Anna Maria Sforza (1476 – 1497). Hereditary Princess of Ferrara as the first wife of Alfonso I d'Este, future Duke of Ferrara. She was the second legitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, and his second wife, Bona of Savoy.
She had two older brothers: Gian Galeazzo Sforza and Hermes Maria Sforza, Marquis of Tortona, and a sister, Bianca Maria Sforza, second wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Caterina Sforza was her half-sister.
In 1491 she married Alfonso I d'Este, the heir of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, but died in childbirth in 1497.
Alfonso remarried, to Lucrezia Borgia, in 1502.
Below, a presumed portrait of Anna Maria (Ritratto di dama, by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, from the school of Leonardo da Vinci).
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