Beatrice d'Este
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Beatrice d'Este was a noblewoman from Ferrara, duchess of Bari and Milan by her marriage to Ludovico Sforza. She was known as a woman of culture, an important patron of arts and science and a leader i
Miniature of Beatrice at the age of 18, by Giovanni Pietro Birago.
Ercole d'Este, Beatrice's father, in a sculpture by Sperandio Savelli.
Bust of Ferrante of Aragon king of Naples, grandfather of Beatrice
Beatrice at the age of ten by Cosmè Tura, 1485
Ferrante d'Este
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Ferrante d'Este was a Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona - he was named after his mother's father Ferdinand I of Naples. His five siblings wer
Miniature by Ferrante d'Este from the Historia Ferrariae by Pellegrino Prisciani, book VII (in ASMo, library manuscripts, 131, c. 2v). It would seem from this that his hair tended to blond, as it did for his brother Sigismund and many of his paternal uncles.
The Este siblings' medals: Isabella, Beatrice, Alfonso, and Ippolito.