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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497, by Julia Mary Cartwright This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Author: Julia Mary Cartwright Release Date: May 27, 2008 [EBook #25622] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEATRICE D'ESTE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Bianca Sforza by Ambrogio de Predis. (Ambrosiana)] BEATRICE D'ESTE DUCHESS OF MILAN 1475-1497 _A STUDY OF THE RENAISSANCE_ BY JULIA CARTWRIGHT (MRS HENRY ADY) _Author of_ "_Madame_," "_Sacharissa_," "_J. F. Millet_" [Illustration] 1910 LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS, LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. _First Edition, November, 1899_ _Second Edition, June, 1903_ _Third Edition, November, 1903_ _Fourth Edition February, 1905_ _Fifth Edition, July, 1908_ _Sixth Edition, May, 1910_ _All rights reserved_ PREFACE During the last twenty years the patient researches of successive students in the archives of North Italian cities have been richly rewarded. The State papers of Milan and Venice, of Ferrara and Modena, have yielded up their treasures; the correspondence of Isabella d'Este, in the Gonzaga archives at Mantua, has proved a source of inexhaustible wealth and knowledge. A flood of light has been thrown on the history of Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; public events and personages have been placed in a new aspect; the judgments of posterity have been modified and, in some instances, reversed. We see now, more clearly than ever before, what manner of men and women these Estes and Gonzagas, these Sforzas and Viscontis, were. We gain fresh insight into their characters and aims, their secret motives and private wishes. We see them in their daily occupations and amusements, at their work and at their play. We follow them from the battle-field and council chamber, from the chase and tournament, to the privacy of domestic life and the intimate scenes of the family circle. And we realize how, in spite o
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