Portrait of Alfonso d'Este by an unknown artist

Alfonso d'Este (1486–1534) was Duke of Ferrara during the War of the League of Cambrai. Image File history File links Alfonso dEste Source: nl:Afbeelding:AlfonsoIdEste. ... Image File history File links Alfonso dEste Source: nl:Afbeelding:AlfonsoIdEste. ... // Events Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies of poisoning. ... Events February 27 - Group of Anabaptists of Jan Matthys seize Münster and declare it The New Jerusalem - they begin to exile dissenters and forcible baptize all others May 10 - Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage. ... The term duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or to the highest rank of nobility in various other European countries, including Portugal, Spain and France (in Italy... Ferrara, a town, an archiepiscopal see and a province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... Northern Italy in 1494; by the start of the war in 1508, Louis XII had expelled the Sforza from the Duchy of Milan and added its territory to France. ...

He was the son of Ercole d'Este I. In 1510 Alfonso was excommunicated by Pope Julius II, who wanted to add Ferrara to the Papal States; Alfonso then fought successfully against the Venetian and Papal armies, capturing Bologna, and played a major part in the French victory at the Battle of Ravenna. Probably most important Duke of Ferrara from the house of Este. ... Events Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. ... Excommunication is a religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ... Julius II, né Giuliano della Rovere (December 5, 1443 – February 21, 1513), was pope from 1503 to 1513. ... The Papal States (Gli Stati della Chiesa or Stati Pontificii, States of the Church) was one of the major historical states of Italy before the boot-shaped peninsula was unified under the Piedmontese crown of Savoy (later a republic). ... The Most Serene Republic of Venice was a city-state in Venetia in Northeastern Italy, based around the city of Venice. ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... The Battle of Ravenna, fought on April 11, 1512, by forces of the Holy League and France, was a major battle of the Italian Wars. ...

Alfonso was one of the husbands of Lucrezia Borgia. He was one of the great patrons of art of his time: for him the elderly Giovanni Bellini painted The Feast of the Gods in 1514, his last completed painting. He turned to Bellini's pupil, Titian, for a sequence of paintings. In 1529 Alphonso created the most magnificent gallery of his time, in order to display his works of art against alabaster-veneered walls under a gilded ceiling ([1]). Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (or Lucrecia Borgia) (April 14 or April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Spaniard who would later become Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattani. ... The Doge Leonardo Loredan Giovanni Bellini (c. ... Titian. ... Alabaster (sometimes called satin spar) is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals: gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and the calcite (a carbonate of calcium). ...

Following in the lead of his father Ercole, who had made Ferrara into one of the musical centers of Europe, Alfonso brought some of the most famous musicians of the time to his court to work as composers, instrumentalists and singers. Musicians from northern Europe who worked at Ferrara during his reign included Antoine Brumel and Adrian Willaert, the latter of whom was to become the founder of the Venetian School, something which could not have happened without Alfonso's patronage. Antoine Brumel (around 1460 – around or after 1515) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. ... Adrian Willaert (c. ... In music history, the Venetian School is a term used to describe the composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes the music they produced. ...

When Alfonso’s grandson Alfonso II d'Este, Robert Browning's duke of "My Last Duchess" [2], produced no male heir; the d'Este line died out; by law, the d'Este title and property reverted to the Pope; and the priceless art was dispersed. Robert Browning Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright. ...

See also

• Este

For Tolkiens fictional character, see Estë To know more about the city, see Este Este, Italian princely family, rulers of Ferrara (1240–1597), Modena and Reggio (1288–1796). ...

External links

• "Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara"
• "Reconstructing the Duke's private gallery"

References

• Taylor, Frederick Lewis (1973). The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-5025-6.