Memling paints Allegory with a Virgin 1470: Marco Bello – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini (died 1523) 1470: Ambrogio Bergognone – Italian Renaissance...

Atlante estense. p. 291. Tuohy, Thomas (2002). Herculean Ferrara : Ercole d'Este, 1471-1505, and the invention of a Ducal capital (1st pbk. ed.). Cambridge:...

local nobility through the marriage of his daughter Margherita to Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara in 1435. In 1530 Federico II (1500–1540) received the...

Ognibene da Lonigo (from 1449). Federico fought for the Sforza of Milan until 1470 and succeeded to the marquisate on 14 June 1478. He was, however, forced...

turns the concept around with a polite euphemism, writing to Duke Ercole d'Este that "this new Duchess is dark-faced and not very beautiful" , but immediately...

Leiden: Brill. Radu Praznaglava Tuohy, Thomas (2002). Herculean Ferrara : Ercole d'Este, 1471–1505, and the invention of a Ducal capital (1st pbk. ed.). Cambridge:...

Bentivoglio (1469–1540) who married Lucrezia, an illegitimate daughter of Ercole I d'Este; Annibale II briefly became a de facto signore (lord) of Bologna from...

r. 1515–1547 Claude 1499–1524 Duchess of Brittany Renée 1510–1574 Ercole II d'Este 1508–1559 Duke of Ferrara Charles Orlando 1492–1495 Dauphin of France...

Count of Harrach 1708 1778 Georg, Count of Erdöd 1674 1753 1751 Ercole III d'Este, 13th Duke of Modena 1727 1803 1753 Wilhelm Reinhard, Count of Neipperg...

1550 Sir Thomas Wyatt – Pentential Psalms 1557 Giovanni Battista Giraldi – Ercole Tottel's Miscellany 1562 Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus...