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(77) Like her menfolk, Luisa capitalized on the profitable relationship between Filippo and the Aragonese: in particular, his close relationship with Eleonora d'Aragona, the Duchess of Ferrara. The tense relations between Ercole d'Este and King Ferdinand installed Eleonora at the helm of this critical patronage relationship, and she became a vital conduit at court for Luisa to all manner of patronage, intercession and aid.

'Leaving hell and arriving in paradise': Between Victimhood and Agency in the Exilic Experience of Luisa Donati Strozzi (1434-1510)

Christine Fischer then provides insights into the activities and status of female composers, focusing on three case studies of contrasting time and location: a group of singers at the court of the Duchess of Ferrara in the late sixteenth century; the compositions of Francesca Caccini at the early seventeenth-century Florentine court of the Medicis; and the eighteenth-century operatic activities of the Electoral Princess of Saxony, Maria Antonia Walpurgis.

Der Hof: Ort kulturellen Handelns von Frauen in der Frtihen Neuzeit

Incidentally, Lucretia Borgia - after three husbands, one of whom was murdered - flourished as the Duchess of Ferrara, eventually dying following childbirth at the age of 39 ...

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Diane Yvonne Ghirardo has revealed that the Duchess of Ferrara was less interested in political intrigue than in running a business, and undertaking massive land development projects.

How pope's illegitimate daughter Lucrezia Borgia got wealthy during an economic downturn

Bradford divides the work into two parts: "The Pope's Daughter, 1480-1501" and "The Duchess of Ferrara, 1502-1519." In the first of these, Bradford has difficulty pulling Lucrezia out from the shadow of her more active father and brothers.

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

That he was loved in return by such as Lucrezia Borgia, the Duchess of Ferrara, was not, to judge by his portrait, because of his looks so much as his genre, affectionate nature, his poetry and his passionate letters.

Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal