Villa d'este photos
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Francesco IV d’Este
The Life
Francesco was born in Milan on 6 October 1779 to Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d’Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine, son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. His birth marked the origin of the Austro-Este line of descent.
He was always firmly opposed to Napoleon’s revolutionary ideas, because of which, as a boy, he experienced the hardships of a life in exile and lived through the death of his paternal aunt, the famous Marie Antoinette, who was executed by guillotine in France in 1793. Following the French conquest, the Este family considered it safer to leave Milan and take refuge in Vienna, where Maria Beatrice Ricciarda did her best to arrange an excellent marriage for her son and the lineage. Having vanished the possibility of marriage to the Emperor’s eldest daughter, Archduchess Maria Luigia, who was to marry the ‘enemy’ Napoleon, Francesco married in 1812 Maria Beatrice of Savoy, daughter of the King of Sardinia Vittorio Emanuele I and Maria Teresa Giovanna (1773-1832), Francesco’s sister,
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The Este Family
(1247c. - 1293)
(died in 1326)
of all the possessions and lands subjected to Estense dominion. In 1334 he was called to Ferrara to take over its government in place of his brother Rinaldo, busy with the siege of Argenta. After Rinaldo's death, Obizzo had, indeed already taken over the final decision-making, in the government of the Estense household and its dominions. Until the time of his death, on 20 march 1352, after a serious illness, he continued basically with his same old policy: good relations with the Holy See, the Visconti and the Scaligeri families and with Bologna. Obizzo III was one of the most well-loved princes the house of Este gave to the Ferrarese people, But he was also one of the shrewdest reformers with regard to institutional aspects. In fact, it was he wh
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Villa d'Este
Renaissance villa in Tivoli, Italy
For other uses, see Villa d'Este (disambiguation).
The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
The Villa was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509–1572), second son of Alfonso I d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara and grandson of Pope Alexander VI through his mother Lucrezia Borgia. The Este family had been lords of Ferrara since 1393, and were famous as patrons of the arts and of the humanist scholars of the Renaissance. As a second son, Ippolito was destined for a career in the church; he was named archbishop of Milan when he was only ten years old. At the age of 27, he was sent to the French court, where he became an advisor to the French King, Francis I, and in 1540 became a member of the King's Private Council. At the age of thirty, at the request of the King, Pope Paul III made d'Este a cardi
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