After a promised Feast of Venus for Duke Alfonso I d ' Este of Ferrara, of which only drawings remain, his last work is fresco of Noli me tangere also in Pian di Mugnone.

Prior to the magnificent banquet which followed the wedding ceremony, Isabella rode through the main streets of Ferrara astride a horse draped in gems and gold.

* 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.

Created by law in 1988, it is managed by a consortium, the Consorzio per la gestione de Parco, to which Ferrara and Ravenna provinces belong as well as nine comuni: Comacchio, Argenta, Ostellato, Goro, Mesola, Codigoro, Ravenna, Alfonsine, and Cervia.

The Fiume Po before then followed the Po di Volano, no longer connected to the Po, which ran to the south of Ferrara and exited near Volano.

He also encouraged the Venetians to attack Ferrara, which he wished to obtain for another nephew.

Also while in Ferrara he was formally employed as the organist to the ducal chapel, which was one of the most opulent musical establishments in Europe.

His son Borso received the title of duke for the imperial fiefs of Modena and Reggio from Emperor Frederick III in 1452 ( in which year Girolamo Savonarola was born here ), and in 1471 was made duke of Ferrara by Pope Paul II.

Composers came to Ferrara from many parts of Europe, especially France and Flanders ; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole for a time ( producing the Missa Hercules dux Ferrariæ, which he wrote for him ); Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice ( and died during an outbreak of plague there in 1505 ); and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505.

The palazzo houses the National Picture Gallery, with a large collection of the school of Ferrara, which first rose to prominence in the latter half of the 15th century, with Cosimo Tura, Francesco Cossa and Ercole dei Roberti.

This street was part of the Jewish Quarter in which the Jews were separated from the rest of the population of Ferrara from 1627 to 1859.

At Florence, where the council of Ferrara had been transferred as a result of an outbreak of the plague, a union with the Eastern Orthodox Church was effected in July 1439, which, as the result of political necessities, proved but a temporary bolster to the papacy's prestige.

The only surviving work which may be in his own hand is a graffito on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, and only one contemporary mention of his character is known, in a letter to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara.

The two surviving branches, with Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony and Bavaria on the German side, concluded an agreement in 1154 which allocated the family's Italian possessions to the younger line, the Fulc-Este, who in the course of time acquired Ferrara, Modena and Reggio.

In 1471 he received the duchy of Ferrara as papal fief from Pope Paul II, for which occasion splendid frescoes were executed at Palazzo Schifanoia.

The intercession of Pierluigi's wife, and especially that of the Cardinal d ' Este of Ferrara, eventually secured Cellini's release, in gratitude for which he gave d ' Este a splendid cup.

The important works which have perished include the uncompleted chalice intended for Clement VII ; a gold cover for a prayer book as a gift from Pope Paul III to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor – both described at length in his autobiography ; large silver statues of Jupiter, Vulcan and Mars, wrought for Francis I during his sojourn in Paris ; a bust of Julius Caesar ; and a silver cup for the cardinal of Ferrara.

At Ferrara his work there included the celebrated Blasons ( a descriptive poem, improved upon medieval models ), which set all the verse-writers of France imitating them.

In 2007 the honor was awarded to the city of Ferrara which proposed its Castle Estense as the base.

Around 1957, that organization was replaced by The International Graphoanalysis Society, which was run by V. Peter Ferrara.

Following the Wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, which ended in 1454, Northern Italy had been largely at peace during the reigns of Cosimo de ' Medici and Lorenzo de ' Medici in Florence, with the notable exception of the War of Ferrara in 1482-1484.

The deal is designed so that the rest of the squadron will not believe Yossarian will be sent home because he has " turned into such a stubborn son of a bitch " and refused to fly, but because-being a hero from the Ferrara mission in which he went into the flak zones a second time without support-he is being sent home as a P. R.

During this period Dufay also began his long association with the Este family in Ferrara, some of the most important musical patrons of the Renaissance, and with which he probably had become acquainted during the days of his association with the Malatesta family ; Rimini and Ferrara are not only geographically close, but the two families were related by marriage, and Dufay composed at least one ballade for Niccolò III, Marquis of Ferrara.

The Cardinal's brother, Alfonso II d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara, was another early enthusiast, enquiring about castrati in 1556.

Cesare was also father to at least 11 illegitimate children, among them Girolamo Borgia, who married Isabella Contessa di Carpi, and Lucrezia Borgia, who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, Lucrezia Borgia.

Partially paralyzed, he was first transferred to Ferrara for rehabilitation and then to the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome to be near his wife, also hospitalized.

He participated at the Congress of Ferrara in 1526 as the Republic's representative ; at the Congress the League of Cognac was formed against the Emperor, allying France with Venice and several states of Italy.

She was born on Tuesday 19 May 1474 at nine o ' clock in the evening in Ferrara, to Ercole I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara and Leonora of Naples.

He was a welcomed guest at the Este court in Ferrara, and in Urbino he spent part of the hot-weather season with the soldier-prince Federico III da Montefeltro.

Lucrezia was married to Giovanni Sforza ( Lord of Pesaro ), Alfonso of Aragon ( Duke of Bisceglie ), and Alfonso I d ' Este ( Duke of Ferrara ).

However, some time after Alexander's death, Giovanni went to stay with Lucrezia in Ferrara, where he was accepted as her half-brother.

Lucrezia met the famed French soldier, the Chevalier Bayard while the latter was co-commanding the French allied garrison of Ferrara in 1510.

She was the daughter of Boniface III, ruler of many counties, among them Reggio, Modena, Mantua, Brescia, and Ferrara.

In 1627 he began his apprenticeship as vice-papal legate at Ferrara, and on recommendations from two cardinals he was appointed successively Inquisitor of Malta and nuncio in Cologne ( 1639 – 1651 ).

On 28 April, he was able to receive the Duke of Urbino in audience, and on 29 April, the Duke of Ferrara.

Henry IV's friendship was of essential importance to the Papacy two years later, when Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, died childless ( 27 October 1597 ), and the Pope resolved to attach the stronghold of the Este family to the states of the Church.

Urban IV's military captain was the condottiere Azzo d ' Este, nominally at the head of a loose league of cities that included Mantua and Ferrara.

In 1999 the park was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and was added to " Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta.

When he was sent to Ferrara in order to assist the people stricken with a severe famine, the Pope introduced him to the people of Ferrara as the " father of the poor.

)- 1475, he studied civil law at the university of Pavia, and later went to Ferrara ( 1475 – 1479 ), where he became the protégé of Prince d ' Este of Ferrara, was a pupil of Theodor Gaza and attended lectures by the famous Battista Guarino.

He had named them Roman patricians ; the latter he had placed in charge of Florence ; the former, for whom he planned to carve out a kingdom in central Italy of Parma, Piacenza, Ferrara and Urbino, he had taken with himself to Rome and married to Filiberta of Savoy.

He had taken some part in the councils which were held in Siena ( 1423 ), Ferrara ( 1438 ), and Florence ( 1439 ), with the object of bringing about a reconciliation between the Greek and Latin Churches ; and in 1450, at the invitation of Pope Nicholas V, he went to Rome, where he was for some years employed by his patron in making Latin translations from Aristotle and other Greek authors.

Julius now excommunicated Alfonso d ' Este, thus justifying an attack on the Duchy itself ; in anticipation of his coming victory, the Pope traveled to Bologna, so as to be nearby when Ferrara was taken.

16th century Italian Jews had taken music and dance to an even more refined level of art: at that time in Italy there were Jewish virtuosi and dancing masters in Mantua, Ferrara, and Rome, and the first known troupes of Jewish performers in Europe.

( Ciro Ferrara would also have won eight if the 2004 / 05 title by Juventus were not taken away due to the match-fixing scandal.