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A.chivio di Stato di Milano, _Beatrice d'Este, Potenze estere_, etc. A.chivio Gonzaga Mantova, _Copia lettera d'Isabella d'Este_, etc.A. Luzio and R. R.nier, _Delle R.lazioni di Isabella d'Este
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887
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The true essence of Villa d'Este is liquid: it is a celebration of water, life-giver of Roman civilization.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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A: The swans are Beatrice d'Este, the duke of Milan's fifteen year old wife; her sister, Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua; Cecilia Gallerani, the duke's seventeen year old mistress; and Lucrezia Crevelli, the duke's later mistress.
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Beatrice and Isabella d'Este, princesses of Ferrara, were women of enormous influence in the Renaissance courts.
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The Villa d'Este was a consolation prize of sorts, built by Ippolito II d'Este, cardinal of Ferrara, whose failed bid for the papacy brought him instead the governorship of Tivoli.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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The architecture of villeggiatura, or summer retreat to the countryside, was perfected by the middle 16th century—with the Villas Farnese and Lante in Viterbo; Aldobrandini and Falconieri in Frascati; and—most famous of all—Villa d'Este at Tivoli.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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There are already La Venexiana discs of madrigals by Marenzio and D'India, as well as one devoted to Luzzasco Luzzaschi c 1545-1607, who was born in Ferrara and spent his working life in the service of the d'Este family.
Luzzaschi: Concerto della Dame: La Venexiana/Cavina – review 2011
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The Villa d'Este also tutored a generation of American landscape architects.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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Its principal designer, Michael Rapuano, had measured and drawn the Villa d'Este in 1928 as a student at the American Academy in Rome, work used by the Italian government to restore the gardens themselves in the 1930s.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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What distinguishes the Villa d'Este is the ambition of this marriage.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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