The intellectual, spiritual, and politically charged life of Battista Sforza (1446–1472), countess of Urbino, is in many ways the culmination of the especially rigorous educational practices within the extended Montefeltro dynastic family. Married at 14 to Jacob Burkhardt’s prototypical “Renaissance Man,” Federico da Montefeltro (1422–1480), Battista died at the age of 26, leaving behind nine children and a legacy of careful governance and courtly splendor. Aside from some correspondence, her literary output has been lost to time. However, we do know from contemporary sources as well as posthumous celebrations that she, like her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, was renowned for the public deployment of her rhetorical skills.