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-== Early life ==
-Isabella was born on Tuesday, 19 May 1474 at nine o'clock in the evening {{sfn|Marek|1976|p=12}} Isabella's mother wrote a letter to her friend Barbara Gonzaga describing the details of Isabella's birth<ref>Note: In fifteenth century Italy the day began at sunset rather than at midnight; therefore as Isabella's birth occurred on 19 May at the second hour, this indicated that correctly, she was born on 18 May, at 9.00 P.M.</ref> in [[Ferrara]], to [[Ercole I d'Este]], Duke of Ferrara, and [[Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara|Eleanor of Naples]].{{sfn|Cartwright|1903a}}
-== Appearance ==
-[[File:Medaglie_dei_fratelli_d'Este,_Isabella,_Beatrice,_Alfonso_e_Ippolito.jpg|link=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medaglie_dei_fratelli_d'Este,_Isabella,_Beatrice,_Alfonso_e_Ippolito.jpg|left|thumb|Confrontation of the Este brothers' medals: Isabella, [[Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara|Alfonso]], [[Ferrante d'Este|Ferrante]], [[Ippolito d'Este|Ippolito]] and [[Sigismondo d'Este (1480–1524)|Sigismondo]] had inherited the typical Este nose of their father; [[Beatrice d'Este|Beatrice]] the slightly upturned one of her mother. Furthermore, all were dark-haired, except Ferrante and Sigismondo, who had recovered, as it seems, the traditional blond of the Este.]]
-Isabella’s appearance was frequently written about in her lifetime. [[Mario Equicola]] said that “her eyes were black and sparkling, her hair yellow, and her complexion one of dazzling brilliancy.”{{sfn|Cartwright|1903a|p=9}} Similarly [[Gian Giorgio Trissino]]’s ''I Ritratti'' has a fictionalized [[Pietro Bembo]] describe Isabella’s “rippling golden hair that flowed in thick masses over her shoulders,”{{sfn|Cartwright|1903a|p=9}} in a passage that, according to art historian Sally Hickson, identifies Isabella as the “living paragon of female beauty.”{{sfn|Hickson|2009|p=17}} The real Bembo praised Isabella’s “beautiful and charming hand and pure, sweet voice” in a letter addressed to her.{{sfn|Cartwright|1903a|p=273}} The alleged beauty of Isabella attracted the attention of the king of France, [[Charles_VIII_of_France | Charles VIII]], who asked the chaplain Bernardino of Urbino about her features and attempted to arrange a meeting with her. However, this meeting never took place as shortly after he returned to France.__59, 60__
-Isabella herself frequently diminished her own appearance; commenting on his portrait she told [[Francesco_Francia | Francia]] that he had “made us far more beautiful by your art than nature ever made us.”{{sfn|Hickson|2009|p=10}} Likewise she told Trissino that “your praises of us far exceed the truth”,__Cartwright, 1903, vol. 2, pg 105__ and said of Titian’s portrait that “we doubt that at the age he represents us we were ever of the beauty it contains.”{{sfn|Hickson|2009|p=19}} In 1534, in the same year that Titian’s portrait was painted, Titian’s friend and Isabella’s [???], Pietro Aretino, mocked her appearance, calling her “the monstrous Marchioness of Mantua, with ebony teeth and ivory eyelashes, dishonestly ugly and ultra-dishonestly tarted up.”__62__ {{sfn|Hickson|2009|p=19}} Despite her desplays of modesty, Isabella was also known to lose herself infront of a mirror. __Fletcher, 1981, 56__
-Isabella was worried about her weight from an early age,__Syson__ and George R. Marek remarks that she was  “a bit on the pudgy side” as a child.__58__ As an adult she discussed her weight with those close to her frequently. In 1499 she sent a portrait by [[Giovanni Santi]] to her brother Ludovico Sforza, complaining that it did not resemble her very much “for being a little fatter than me.” Ludovico replied that he liked the portrait very much of her and that it was very similar to her, although "somewhat more fat", unless Isabella had "grown fatter after we saw her." __61__, __Fletcher, 1981, 56__ In 1509 she complained to her husband that “if she had more to do with running the state she would not have grown fat”,__Fletcher, 1981, 63__ while in 1511 her sister Lucrezia complained about an early draft of the Francia portrait that made her look too thin.{{sfn|Hickson|2009|p=9}}
-Her face became damaged and prematurely aged by [[Venetian ceruse]].__63__
-== References ==
-{{reflist}}
-== Bibliography ==
-* {{cite book |editor-last=Bini|editor-first=Daniele |date=2001|publisher=Daniele Bini|isbn=88-86251-45-9|title=Isabella d'Este: La primadonna del Rinascimento}}
-* {{cite book |last=Cartwright|first=Julia Mary|date=1903a|title=Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, 1474–1539: a study of the renaissance |volume=1 |publisher=New York, E.P. Dutton and company|url=https://archive.org/details/isabelladestemar01cart}}
-* {{cite book |last=Cartwright|first=Julia Mary|date=1903b|title=Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua, 1474–1539: a study of the renaissance |volume=2 |publisher=New York, E.P. Dutton and company|url=https://archive.org/details/isabelladestemar02cart}}
-* {{cite book |last=Cartwright|first=Julia Mary|date=1945|title=Beatrice d'Este, Duchessa di Milano|location=Milano|agency=Edizioni Cenobio|isbn=1406754110}}
-* {{cite book|last=Ferino|first=Sylvia|date=1994|title=Isabella d'Este – Fürstin und Mäzenatin der Renaissance|location=Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna)}}
-* {{cite journal|last=Hickson|first=Sally|date=2009|journal=Renaissance Studies|issue=vol. 23 no. 3|publisher=The Society for Renaissance Studies, Blackwell Publishing Ltd|title=‘To see ourselves as others see us’: Giovanni  Francesco Zaninello of Ferrara and the portrait of Isabella d’Este by Francesco Francia|doi=10.1111/j.1477-4658.2009.00565.x }}
-* {{cite book |last1=Luzio|first1=Alessandro|last2=Renier|first2=Rodolfo |date=1890 |title=Delle relazioni d'Isabella d'Este Gonzaga con Lodovico e Beatrice Sforza|url=https://archive.org/details/LuzioRenierDelleRelazioniDiIsabel|location=Milano|agency=Tipografia Bortolotti di Giuseppe Prato|isbn=}}
-* {{cite book|last=Marek|first=George R.|date=1976 |title=The Bed and the Throne: The Life of Isabella d'Este|publisher=Harper and Row Publishers|location= New York|isbn=978-0-06-012810-4}}
-* {{cite book |last=de Mazzeri|first=Silvia Alberti|date=1986|title=Beatrice d'Este duchessa di Milano|publisher=Rusconi |agency=Rusconi|isbn=9788818230154}}
-* {{cite book |last=Mazzi|first=Maria Serena|date=2004|title=Come rose d'inverno, le signore della corte estense nel '400|publisher=Nuovecarte |agency=Nuovecarte|isbn=9788887527162}}
-* {{cite book |last=Pizzagalli|first=Daniela |date=1999|title=La dama con l'ermellino, vita e passioni di Cecilia Gallerani nella Milano di Ludovico il Moro|publisher=Rizzoli |agency=Rizzoli|isbn=9788817860734}}
-* {{cite book |last=Pizzagalli|first=Daniela |date=2001|title=La signora del Rinascimento. Vita e splendori di Isabella d'Este alla corte di Mantova |publisher=Rizzoli |agency=Rizzoli|isbn=9788817868075}}
-* {{cite book |last=Valeri|first=Francesco Malaguzzi|date=1913|title=La corte di Lodovico il Moro: la vita privata e l'arte a Milano nella seconda metà del Quattrocento|url=https://archive.org/details/lacortedilodovic01mala|location=Milano|agency=Hoepli|volume=1|isbn=}}
-== Appearance and personality ==
-[[File:Medaglie_dei_fratelli_d'Este,_Isabella,_Beatrice,_Alfonso_e_Ippolito.jpg|link=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Medaglie_dei_fratelli_d'Este,_Isabella,_Beatrice,_Alfonso_e_Ippolito.jpg|left|thumb|Confrontation of the Este brothers' medals: Isabella, [[Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara|Alfonso]], [[Ferrante d'Este|Ferrante]], [[Ippolito d'Este|Ippolito]] and [[Sigismondo d'Este (1480–1524)|Sigismondo]] had inherited the typical Este nose of their father; [[Beatrice d'Este|Beatrice]] the slightly upturned one of her mother. Furthermore, all were dark-haired, except Ferrante and Sigismondo, who had recovered, as it seems, the traditional blond of the Este.]]She has been described as physically attractive, though plump; she possessed "lively eyes" and was "of lively grace".{{sfn|Marek|1976|p=16}} The physical appearance of Isabella interested the king of France [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]], an unrepentant womanizer, who having already met her sister [[Beatrice d'Este|Beatrice]], whom he had greatly liked, wanted to know if Isabella resembled her, and asked the chaplain Bernardino of Urbino if she was more beautiful, taller, her age, her features, her character and her virtues.<ref name=":4">La galleria dei Gonzaga, venduta all'Inghilterra nel 1627–28: documenti degli archivi di Mantova e Londra, Alessandro Luzio Cogliati, 1913, p. 223.</ref><ref name=":0">Alessandro Luzio e Rodolfo Renier, Delle relazioni d'Isabella d'Este Gonzaga con Lodovico e Beatrice Sforza, Milano, Tipografia Bortolotti di Giuseppe Prato, 1890, p. 116.</ref>
-[[File:Charles_VIII,_King_of_France_MET_DP-144-001.jpg|link=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_VIII,_King_of_France_MET_DP-144-001.jpg|thumb|Charles VIII King of France]]
-The chaplain replied that Isabella surpassed her sister in beauty and that she was no taller than her, which greatly pleased King Charles who, being just as short, did not want women taller than him. Jacopo d'Atri communicates to the marquise his suspicion that the king would have come to Mantua to kiss her "a thousand times" as well as he had kissed Beatrice, according to French custom, and reassures her in this regard by telling her that "it is not as deformed as ours describe it"- in fact, Carlo was described by the Italians as very ugly – however the meeting never took place, since shortly after he returned to France. The Mantuan courtiers therefore judged that Isabella was more beautiful than Beatrice, but the lack of her portraits does not allow a sure comparison between the two, which distinguishes the truth from her praise.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" />
-After all, Isabella was very concerned with her appearance, as can be understood from many small details. In 1499, having to send her own portrait to Isabella of Aragon, she sent it before her to her brother-in-law Ludovico Sforza, specifying however that her painting did not resemble her very much "for being a little fatter than me". Ludovico replied that he liked the portrait very much of her and that it was very similar to her, although "somewhat more fat", unless Isabella had "grown fatter after we saw her."<ref>Alessandro Luzio e Rodolfo Renier, Delle relazioni d'Isabella d'Este Gonzaga con Lodovico e Beatrice Sforza, etc, p. 151.</ref>
-Her face became damaged and prematurely aged by [[Venetian ceruse]]. With age, her figure underwent an inexorable decline: [[Pietro Aretino]], in his 1534 work, defines her as "monstrous Marquise of Mantua, which has ebony teeth, ivory eyelashes, dishonestly ugly and archdisonestically embellished".<ref>{{cite book |author=Lorenzo Bonoldi |title=Isabella d'Este: La Signora del Rinascimento |year=2015 |page=78}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History |author=Jill Condra |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport, CT |year=2008 |isbn=9780313336621 |page=35}}</ref>