Anna Inglese

[2][3] One of the earliest documentations of her activity was in 1468 when she was recommended by Gugliemo di Monferrato as a singer for Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Bona of Savoy's impending wedding festivities.

Monferrato, who had been Galeazzo Sforza's tutor, noted in his letter that in addition to singing, Anna could also devise entertainments and was an honourable person.

On her departure from Milan, the Duke paid Anna 100 ducats, a large sum at the time, and provided an expensive set of new clothes for her tenorista.

The following year a letter to Galeazzo Sforza from the Milanese ambassador to Naples described Anna dancing with Ferdinand's daughter Leonora in the palace gardens.

A letter by one of Galeazzo's tutors to his father stated that amongst the group of "very notable singers" at a banquet in the boy's honour was "an English damsel who sang so sweetly and suavely that it seemed not a human voice, but divine.

Naples in the late 15th century when Anna Inglese was a singer at the court of Ferdinand I