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The article focuses on the neo-Latin historical epics of the north Italian courts. During renaissance, interesting events occurred in only three places, Florence, Venice and Rome. One popular practice is to represent the smaller urban capitals of fifteenth-century Italy as if they were interchangeable parts of a larger whole sharing similar cultural traits attitudes and ambitions. The structure of a courtly system of government is cited as the common factor, the shared trait indicating the essentially similar character of the different cities. By allowing the concept of courtly culture to function as the definitive common denominator between such cities as Ferrara, Milan, Rimini, Urbino and Mantua, the process of fitting things together may have been facilitated but only at the cost of obliterating the original purpose of the exercise.