promised to establish primogeniture in the Este holdings, contrary in fact to Estense traditions, and explicitly disinheriting Azzo's brother Francesco. The...
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Fricapane and Fresapane. In his Trattatello in laude di Dante, Boccaccio traces the descent of Dante from the family. The family claimed descent from the...
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Biblioteca Estense Lat.211=alfa.P.6.14, 1401-1500, Modena, Biblioteca Estense Lat.939=alfa.M,9.22, 1401-1500, Modena, Biblioteca Estense Ms.Pal.0069...
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Malaspina family (section Dante's homage)
Villafranca, Virgoletta, Garbugliaga, Beverone: Federico III Malaspina Estense 1722–86; Modena feud Castevoli, Cavanella, Stadomelli: Opizzone Paolo 1744–59...
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Francesca The Baptism of Christ (completed c.1448-1450) Frescoes in Castello Estense and church of Sant'Andrea, Ferrara (1449; now lost) Barthélemy d'Eyck (attributed)...
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List of illuminated manuscripts (section Dante)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453 (Gospels of Otto III) Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Gr. I (Gospel Book) Saint Petersburg, Russian National Library, Trapezunt...
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above the level of her sex". She was born on 29 June 1475 in the Castello Estense of Ferrara, second child of Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona. The...
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natural." ». A fifteenth-century manuscript copy survives in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena. The text was first printed in Venice in 1546 by Giovanni Lacinio...
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Coronation of the Virgin in oval, and the controversial Heaven and Hell, Dante's depiction of the places, with a gigantic figure of Lucifer. Chapel of St...
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in Galicia and Portugal, and that of the trouvères in northern France. Dante Alighieri in his De vulgari eloquentia defined the troubadour lyric as fictio...
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