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| Ippolito Cardinal d'Este |
Ippolito I d'Este.
(1479-1520)
Italian cardinal
Archbishop of Esztergom 1487
Cardinal 1493
Archbishop of Milan 1497
Bishop of Agria
Archpriest of St. Peter's
Bishop of Ferrara
Also known as:
Ippolito I d'Este
Cardinal d'Este.
Son of: Ercole I d'Este, Duca di Ferrara & Eleonora di Napoli.
"Taking his [Cesare Borgia] menagerie of a family with him, Cesare left Nepi in time to be on hand for Pius III's coronation on October 8. It was, for him, an event worthy of celebration: the pontiff confirmed him in all his vicariates and as gonfalonier and installed him in the palace of his brother-in-law, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, absent from Rome since making himself a target of Borgia anger by becoming sexually involved both with Sancia and with Cesare's favorite mistress. . . ." (The Borgias: The Hidden History: 393)
"Subsequently, Giulio and Ippolito had a new reason to clash: they discovered that they were both admirers of a lady of the court and cousin of Lucrezia, Angela Borgia, who, of the two, seemed to favor the Giulio.[3][4] The Cardinal Ippolito, a libertine and ladies' man, depended on his refinement to conquer beautiful women, and was a sore loser. When Angela told him that, "Monsignore, your brother's [Giulio's] eyes are worth more than the whole of your person...", he flew into an uncontrollable rage. On the 3rd November 1505, while Giulio was returning from a trip to Belriguardo, he was surrounded by servants of Ippolito, who had ordered his men to kill his half brother and tear out his eyes. Giulio was alone and could not protect himself, although he was not killed, he was brutally beaten so that he scarred and his eyes were stabbed. He eventually lost eyesight in one eye and was left with only blurs in the other.[5] Ippolito had hastened to send to the Italian courts a revised version of the event, which succeeded in preventing Ippolito from being punished.
In December of that same year, Alfonso brought about a formal truce between the brothers." (Wikipedia)
His lovers were:
1) Angela Borgia (1486-1520/22)
Signora di Sassuolo.
a.k.a. Angela de Borja.
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Natural daughter of: Guillem Ramon de Borja y Sanoguera (d.1503) & Isabel de Moncada.
Wife of: Alessandro Pio di Savoia, Signore di Sassuolo, mar 1506.
In December of that same year, Alfonso brought about a formal truce between the brothers." (Wikipedia)
2) Dalida de Puti.
Italian singer & courtesan.
Italian singer & courtesan.
Natural offspring:
a. Ippolito d'Este.
b. Elisabetta d'Este married Giberto Pio, Signore di Sassuolo
"He was still holding numerous abbacies, was Bishop of Eger, of Ferrara and Modena, as well as Archbishop of Capua. He also had been Archbishop of Milan, but in May 1919 he made the see over to his nephew, also called Ippolito d'Este. Much of his immense wealth he spent on his palaces, and he was a patron of musicians, but apart from war his chief delight seems to been hunting. His mistress Dalida de Putti bore him two children, Ippolito and Elisabetta." (Walsh: 151)
"Alfonso's brother, Ercole's third son, Ippolito I (1479-1520), entered the church and became Cardinal d'Este. Despite his vow of celibacy, he had illegitimate offspring, like many sons of powerful noble families who were forced into careers in the church. His son, also named Ippolito, was legitimized in 1551. His daughter, Elisabetta, made a politically advantageous marriage with Giberto Pio, the Lord of Sassuolo. The fact that his children were the illegitimately-born offspring of a cleric did little to hinder tham in the long run, which was not unusual during the Italian Renaissance.: (Ladies, Concubines and Pseudo-wives: 135-136)
a. Ippolito d'Este.
b. Elisabetta d'Este married Giberto Pio, Signore di Sassuolo
"He was still holding numerous abbacies, was Bishop of Eger, of Ferrara and Modena, as well as Archbishop of Capua. He also had been Archbishop of Milan, but in May 1919 he made the see over to his nephew, also called Ippolito d'Este. Much of his immense wealth he spent on his palaces, and he was a patron of musicians, but apart from war his chief delight seems to been hunting. His mistress Dalida de Putti bore him two children, Ippolito and Elisabetta." (Walsh: 151)
"Alfonso's brother, Ercole's third son, Ippolito I (1479-1520), entered the church and became Cardinal d'Este. Despite his vow of celibacy, he had illegitimate offspring, like many sons of powerful noble families who were forced into careers in the church. His son, also named Ippolito, was legitimized in 1551. His daughter, Elisabetta, made a politically advantageous marriage with Giberto Pio, the Lord of Sassuolo. The fact that his children were the illegitimately-born offspring of a cleric did little to hinder tham in the long run, which was not unusual during the Italian Renaissance.: (Ladies, Concubines and Pseudo-wives: 135-136)
Italian noblewoman
"Enter a teenage Ippolito de' Medici prior to his donning the cardinal's cape. Colonna resisted marriage to Ippolito because she had no literary interests. She noticed that when Ippolito visited he only had eyes for Giulia and talked poetry with her all evening. In 1528 Vespasiano Colonna died defending Naples from the French invasion. He left his fifteen-year-old widow 30,000 ducats and the rents from his vast estates as long as she did not remarry. On his deathbed Vespasiano expressed his wish that Isabella marry Ippolito, Instead she married Giulia's brother Luigi, thereby strengthening Gonzaga claims to Vespasiano's disputed estate with the powerful Colonna clan. Thus Giulia was free to become the mistress of Ippolito, who became a cardinal less than a year after Vespasiano's death. In March 1531 Ippolito flooded arenas to stage mock sea battles, and held tournaments all in the name of his love Giulia. Later that year Giulia, still a teenager, moved to Fondi . . . Fondi quickly became the focal point of Medici sodality." (Twilight of the Renaissance: The Life of Juan de Valdes: 80)
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| Ippolito II d'Este Cardinal |
(1509-1572)
Italian cardinal & statesman.
Also known as:
Ippolito II d'Este.
Archbishop of Milan 1519-1550
Archbishop of Novara
Archbishop of Lyon 1539-1551
Archbishop of Auch 1551-1562
Archbishop of Arles 1562-1566
Archbishop of Narbonne 1550-1551
Bishop of Autun 1546-1550
Bishop of Saint-Jean-de Maurienne 1563-1567
Abbot of Jumieges 1539-1549
Abbot of Saint-Georges de Boscherville 1556-1572
Abbot of Saint-Pierre de Flavigny 1557
Abbot of the Holy Trinity of Tiron 1561-1563
Abbot of Chaalis 1541-1572
Cardinal of Santa Maria 1538
Ferrarese ambassador to France 1538
Cardinal-Protector of France 1549
Governor of Tivoli 1550
Governor of Siena 1552
Son of: Alfonso I d'Este, Duca di Ferrara & Lucrezia Borgia.
"The younger son of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Lucrezia Borgia was born on 25 August 1509. . . As a younger son he was destined for a career in the Church, in pursuit of which his extremely rich relative could be of immense assistance. As indeed he was.
" . . . Five years earlier another scene had been witnessed: the hired assassins of the young cardinal Ippolito of Este sought to tear out the eyes of his natural brother Giulio, because the cardinal's mistress had found these eyes beautiful. Such were the princes of the Church at this period." (Gregorovius & Hamilton, 2010, p. 76)
Italian nobleman & cardinal.
Cardinal Protector of France
Bishop of Ferrara 1550
Apostolic Administrator of Ferrara 1151
Son of: Ercole II d'Este & Renee de France.
His lover was:
Lucrezia Bendidio (1547-1584).
Italian aristocrat & singer.
Lady-in-waiting to Leonora de' Medici 1560
Lady-in-waiting to Eleonora d'Este 1561
Daughter of: Nicolo Bendidio, Ferrarese aristocrat & close adviser of Duke Alfonso II d'Este
[Bio1:Stras]
Wife of: Conte Paolo Machiavelli, ma 1562
"Although Lucrezia's position at court was almost certainly enhanced by her vocal prowess, she also gained influence, however questionable, as the mistress of Duke Alfonso's brother, Cardinal Luigi d'Este. From the late 1560s, she was openly involved with the cardinal, with apparently more than just a tacit policy of non-interference from the Duke. One of the Duke's secretaries, court archivist and poet Giovanni Battista Pigna, also chose Lucrezia to be his muse, and asked his colleague Guarini to annotate a manuscript copy of his canzoniere for her, and furthermore to dedicate it to her mistress, the Princess Leonora. The collection was entitled Il ben divino, the love of God, or 'il ben di Dio'. This gesture
" . . . On 14 December 1577, Urbani's predecessor at Ferrara, Bernardo Canigiani, wrote to the grand duke's secretary, Belisario Vinta describing how he had been present with the conserto of three ladies. One of the ladies in question was Lucrezia Bendidio, by then one of the principal ornaments of the court. Before her marriage to Baldassare Macchiavelli in 1562, she had been the object of Torquato Tasso's love poems; at the time of the concert described here, she was reputed to be the mistress of Cardinal Luigi d'Este, at that time in France. Meanwhile, she had apparently also been the subject of amorous advances by Giovan Battista Pigna, the duke's private secretary, who wrote poems to her. Her four sisters were all married off to important members of the Ferrarese court, and her own status was high, although it is difficult to be precise about the limits of her 'duties'." (Wistreich, 2007, p. 243)
Lucrezia's married life: "In 1562 she was married to a widower, Conte Paolo Macchiavelli, older than she and reputedly a dissipate and excessive libertine. The marriage was unhappy and without issue, although Bendido adopted a two-year-old boy, Cesare Ligurio, in 1583. . . ." (Lucrezia Bendido)
His lovers were:
Natural offspring:
1. Renata d'Este, wife of Lodovico II Pico della Mirandola, mar 1553
" . . . Five years earlier another scene had been witnessed: the hired assassins of the young cardinal Ippolito of Este sought to tear out the eyes of his natural brother Giulio, because the cardinal's mistress had found these eyes beautiful. Such were the princes of the Church at this period." (Gregorovius & Hamilton: 76)
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| Luigi Cardinal d'Este |
(1538-1586)
Cardinal
1561
Italian nobleman & cardinal.
Cardinal Protector of France
Bishop of Ferrara 1550
Apostolic Administrator of Ferrara 1151
Son of: Ercole II d'Este & Renee de France.
His lover was:
Lucrezia Bendidio (1547-1584).
Italian aristocrat & singer.
Lady-in-waiting to Leonora de' Medici 1560
Lady-in-waiting to Eleonora d'Este 1561
Daughter of: Nicolo Bendidio, Ferrarese aristocrat & close adviser of Duke Alfonso II d'Este
[Bio1:Stras]
Wife of: Conte Paolo Machiavelli, ma 1562
"Although Lucrezia's position at court was almost certainly enhanced by her vocal prowess, she also gained influence, however questionable, as the mistress of Duke Alfonso's brother, Cardinal Luigi d'Este. From the late 1560s, she was openly involved with the cardinal, with apparently more than just a tacit policy of non-interference from the Duke. One of the Duke's secretaries, court archivist and poet Giovanni Battista Pigna, also chose Lucrezia to be his muse, and asked his colleague Guarini to annotate a manuscript copy of his canzoniere for her, and furthermore to dedicate it to her mistress, the Princess Leonora. The collection was entitled Il ben divino, the love of God, or 'il ben di Dio'. This gesture
" . . . On 14 December 1577, Urbani's predecessor at Ferrara, Bernardo Canigiani, wrote to the grand duke's secretary, Belisario Vinta describing how he had been present with the conserto of three ladies. One of the ladies in question was Lucrezia Bendidio, by then one of the principal ornaments of the court. Before her marriage to Baldassare Macchiavelli in 1562, she had been the object of Torquato Tasso's love poems; at the time of the concert described here, she was reputed to be the mistress of Cardinal Luigi d'Este, at that time in France. Meanwhile, she had apparently also been the subject of amorous advances by Giovan Battista Pigna, the duke's private secretary, who wrote poems to her. Her four sisters were all married off to important members of the Ferrarese court, and her own status was high, although it is difficult to be precise about the limits of her 'duties'." (Wistreich, 2007, p. 243)
Lucrezia's married life: "In 1562 she was married to a widower, Conte Paolo Macchiavelli, older than she and reputedly a dissipate and excessive libertine. The marriage was unhappy and without issue, although Bendido adopted a two-year-old boy, Cesare Ligurio, in 1583. . . ." (Lucrezia Bendido)
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