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He went to Germany, where he became Duke of Bavaria and founded the Guelf line. Folco inherited his father's Italian possessions, and in the great struggle of the German emperor with the papacy, the Margraves of Este were aggressive and determined soldiers.
And so, with a pleasant trip across the sunny waters of the lagoon and a festa in the beautiful gardens of Caterina Cornaro, that royal lady who never neglected an opportunity of showing her friendship for the house of Este, Beatrice's week at Venice came to an end.
April 13, 1807, he lost his second wife; but less than nine months afterwards, January 6, 1808, he married his young cousin, Marie Louise Beatrice of Este, daughter of the late Archduke Ferdinand of Modena. This princess, who was born December 14, 1787, was very short, but attractive in appearance and of an excellent character.
Originally built for the Pesaro family, it had been presented to Niccolo II. of Este in gratitude for his services when, a hundred years before, he had supplied the Republic with corn during the long war against Genoa.
Quisiera, para terminar, citar algunos extractos, pertinentes a este asunto, de un discurso que pronuncié en una velada celebrada en el Opera House y dedicado a Rizal por varios colegios de señoritas en 1913: Se ha creído que la mujer debe reducir toda su esfera de acción al hogar a la vida doméstica, ser absolutamente la gloria y el encanto de su esposo y de sus hijos; y no es así, pues que la mujer tanto como el hombre, nace en la sociedad y vive dentro de ella, y no puede, no debe ser indiferente a las miserías y las desgracias sociales.
DON EDUARDO. Amanece todavía tan tarde ... y a no haber venido sin afeitarme.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Oh! eso no; hubiera sido imperdonable en un día tan solemne, como lo es éste, el que usted se hubiera presentado con barbas. DON EDUARDO. Y sobre todo, hubiera sido poco limpio.
And, in fact, 'the first of the house of Este who attended the corpse of a subject' walked, clad in black, after the coffin, weeping, while behind him came the relatives of Casella, each conducted by one of the gentlemen of the court: the body of the plain citizen was carried by nobles from the church into the cloister, where it was buried.
The singer of the house of Este would now, it might have been supposed, be happy. He had leisure; he had money; he had the worldly honours that he was fond of; he occupied himself in perfecting the Jerusalem; and he wrote his beautiful pastoral, the Aminta, which was performed before the duke and his court to the delight of the brilliant assembly.
West Point was on his outside, but his conversation and vacant look told me plainly enough that outside of a Government position the squirt had not brains enough to gain a day's subsistence. But he's one of Pigey's 'my Regulars, and to us Volunteers he can put himself on his dignity with a 'Procul, Procul, este Profani." "George, don't stir me up on that subject any more.
It may be parenthetically observed that one of the few familiar quotations from Shelley's poems occurs in "Julian and Maddalo": Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Byron lent the Shelleys his villa of the Cappuccini near Este, where they spent some weeks in the autumn.
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