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Updated: June 25, 2025
After the death of his father, the able and learned Niccolo III., who first established his throne on sure and safe foundations, Ercole's two elder half-brothers, Leonello and Borso, reigned in succession over Ferrara, and kept up the proud traditions of the house of Este, both in war and peace. Both were bastards, but in the Este family this was never held to be a bar to the succession.
"Am I wrong to have brought him?" he demanded, distractedly. "Can I depend on him at every point? You two, and Laura and Lina, know what it would mean if he should make a slip." Much disturbed, I declared that I wished for nothing better than to return to Florence at once. But Leonardo restrained me, while Leonello, patting Antonio's shoulder in reassurance, responded: "Trust him.
A burial-party, assembled at a convent gate, had their black robes fluttering, their waxen torches blown out. "Death!" muttered Antonio, with a sardonic grimace. "And they call it unconquerable!" As we paused before a dwelling-house, two men emerged upon the pavement. They were Leonello, the artist, and another friend of the old days, named Leonardo. The unusual occasion constrained our greetings.
But both of these claims were invalid, since the investiture granted by Wenceslaus to the first duke excluded females. So Milan was once again thrown open to the competition of usurpers. The student must, however, read between the lines of this biography, for Decembrio, at the request of Leonello d' Este, suppressed the darker colors of the portrait of his master.
Antonio, in fact, could trace his family back through Florentine history into the Middle Ages. "Is Leonello the same?" I pursued. "Always up to some nonsense? But you were not much behind him in those insane adventures." "Take that to yourself," Antonio retorted. "I recall one antic, just before you left us " He broke off to meditate.
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