Duchess of Ferrara

Moreover, a collection of chansons spirituelles (1550) and a volume of chansons (1543), the latter printed at his own expense and dedicated to the Protestant Renée of France, Duchess of Ferrara, strongly suggest Calvinist leanings on the part of the composer.

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The main issue was to do with class: in such a highly stratified society, it was considered inappropriate for a member of the minor aristocracy, engaged at court as lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Ferrara, to form a relationship with a servant.

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Lucrezia Borgia was the Duchess of Ferrara from 1502 - 1519 but as the illegitimate daughter of the murderous Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, her name, as with all the Borgias, became synonymous with villainy.

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This was to show that he recognized in her, the prospective Duchess of Ferrara, a person of weight in the politics of the peninsula.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

Here it should be noted that Lucretia's accusers and their charges can refer only to the Roman period of her life, while her admirers appear only in the second epoch, when she was Duchess of Ferrara.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

Laura passed among all those who were acquainted with her mother's secrets as the child of Alexander VI and natural sister of the Duchess of Ferrara.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

In the meantime, in 1869, there was published in London the first exhaustive work on the subject: _Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, a

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

About her neck she had a chain of pearls and rubies which had once belonged to the Duchess of Ferrara -- as Isabella noticed with tears in her eyes.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

The last maintained his connection with Lucretia while she was Duchess of Ferrara.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

It must have been a humiliation for both of them to have to confide their suspicions to their ambassador in Rome, and to ask him to find out what he could regarding the character of a lady who was to be the future Duchess of Ferrara.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius