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Updated: May 12, 2025
Such shall be my destiny if I do not find that of a happy wife attached forever to her husband; I smile alike at the thought of either fate. Do you believe France will be any the worse if Mademoiselle d'Este does not give it two or three sons, and never becomes a Madame Vilquin-something-or-other? As for me, I shall never be an old maid.
Isabella d'Este, the eldest of Ercole's and Leonora's two daughters, early displayed the striking beauty and great qualities that distinguished her in after-years. Her regular features and delicate colouring, her ready wit and gracious manners, charmed all the visitors to Ferrara. The letters of princes and ambassadors were full of her praises.
Her mind traveled, in retrospect, over the events of the past few months the conspiracy against her, by her step-uncle, Count d'Este, by which he had so nearly deprived her of the fortune left to her by her aunt, and the striking way in which his plans had been upset by Richard Duvall.
But on this occasion his especial object in visiting his native city was, as he tells Isabella d'Este, to stock the park with game of all kinds deer, chamois, hare, and pheasants as well as the wild boars and wolves for the more serious sport known as la grande caccia.
There was the famous Puncta, or diamond arrow, given by Duchess Beatrice's grandfather, Niccolo d'Este, to Francesco Sforza; and the Caduceus, a favourite device of the Moro's, wrought in large pearls, each of which was said to be worth 25,000 ducats; while the balass ruby, known as the Marone, often worn as a brooch by Beatrice, was valued at 10,000 ducats.
Fêtes at Venice in honour of the Duchess of Ferrara and Duchess of Bari Beatrice d'Este has an audience with the Doge and Signory Explains Lodovico's position and his treaties with France and Germany Visit to St. Mark's and the Treasury Fête in the ducal palace The Duchess visits the Great Council Takes leave of the Doge Return to Ferrara.
First of all came the Mantuan troop of twenty horsemen clad in green velvet and gold lace, bearing golden lances and olive boughs in their hand, with Isabella's kinsman, Alfonso Gonzaga, at their head. Then came Annibale Bentivoglio, the young husband of Lucrezia d'Este, with the Bologna knights, riding on a triumphal car drawn by stags and unicorns, the badge of the House of Este.
Titian undertook to do this, but he did not keep his word, for he painted only five doges, though many more followed. He had no sooner received his commission from the council of his native place than he began to neglect it, and to paint for the husband of the wicked poisoner Lucretia Borgia whose name was Alfonso d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara.
Instead of beginning on the accounts as he should have done, he remained at the mercy of his perplexities. "One thing is evident," he said to himself; "she hasn't six millions; but that's not the point " Six days later, Modeste received the following letter: Mademoiselle, You are not a D'Este. The name is a feigned one to conceal your own.
Both from the court of Alberto Pio at Carpi, where he found refuge with a kinsman of the Estes, and at Venice, where he founded his famous printing-press, he kept up frequent communications with the duke's family, and dedicated books to young Cardinal Ercole, and bound and printed choice editions of Petrarch and Virgil for his sister Isabella d'Este.
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