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Ercole I d'Este KG (English: Hercules I; 26 October 1431 – 25 January 1505) was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505. He was a member of the House of Este . He was nicknamed North Wind and The Diamond .
Ercole I d'Este, soprannominato il Cavaliere senza paura o anche Tramontana ( Ferrara, 24 ottobre 1431 – Ferrara, 25 gennaio 1505 ), figlio di Niccolò III, marchese di Ferrara, Modena e Reggio, succedette al fratellastro Borso il 20 agosto 1471 e fu il secondo duca di Ferrara fino alla sua morte.
Ercole I, son of Niccolò III and his third wife, Ricciarda di Saluzzo, was Marquis d’Este, and second Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1471.
He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death in January 1505. In the first year of his rule he uncovered a plot by his brother Ferrante and half-brother Giulio d'Este , directed against him and his other brother Ippolito . [3]
Ercole II d'Este (4 April 1508 – 3 October 1559) was Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1534 to 1559. He was the eldest son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia . Biography [ edit ]
Ercole d'Este (1471–1505) is perhaps best known as the father of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, but his court in Ferrara was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. He was an extremely prolific builder and laid out plans which doubled the size of the city.
Ercole I d'Este KG was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505. He was a member of the House of Este. He was nicknamed North Wind and The Diamond.
Portraiture of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1471 - 15o5)*. The study of fifteenth-century Italian portraiture has largely been concerned with such questions as attribution, realism versus idealism, individual ar-. tistic invention, typology, and relationships to classical and northern European models. Scholars.
Ercole I d'Este. Ariosto inizia la sua attività di letterato di corte con Ercole I d’Este. Per lui si occuperà di realizzare commedie e di allestire spettacoli teatrali, e di lui vanterà spesso la grande munificenza. Nascita: 1431.
Of all the Estensi of the fifteenth century, only Ercole I has been known to music historians. The few existing biographical accounts of Ercole have been based essentially on contemporary chronicles, on early histories of the dynasty, and on limited archival research.
