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Gigliola da Carrara

Gigliolas father distrustful of Gian Galeazzos promises, betrothed her instead to her cousin Niccolò III d'Este, son of Alberto V d'Este (and enemy of Gian Galeazzo). The 13 years old Marchioness of Ferrara married, Niccolò III d'Este, in 1394. As a wedding gift the couple were gifted with the books De viris illustribus by Francesco Petrarca and De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccaccio*.* Gigliola's husband was frequently unfaithful to her and fathered many illegitimate children.

After the Battle of Casalecchio in 1402, her brother Francesco Giacomowho were captured by enemy forces and was being taken to Pavia and Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Francesco managed to escape to the territory of his brother-in-law and husband to Gigliola. She supplied him with a horse and guards to get him home safely to Padua.

In 1405 her father and two brothers were executed by Venetian officials after their capture during the War of Padua.

Death

Gigliola died of the plague in 1416, leaving no children. Nicholò then married Parisina Malatesta whom he condemned to death for adultery with Ugo d'Este, and then Ricciarda di Saluzzo, with whom he had his children Ercole I d'Este and Sigismondo d'Este.

References

References

  1. Gatari, Galeazzo. (1830). "The Fortunes of Francesco Novello Da Carrara, Lord of Padua, an Historical Tale of the Fourteenth Century, from the Chronicles of Gatari, with Notes. By D. Syme". Constable.
  2. (1890). "Atti e memorie della R. Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Provincie Modenesi". Deputazioni.
  3. (2009). "Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy". Penn State Press.
  4. "Dukes & Poets in Ferrara". Ardent Media.
  5. "Parisina and the Playing Cards".
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