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2 unusual facts about Parisina Malatesta


Parisina Malatesta

She married Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, in Ravenna in 1414, whose first wife Gigliola da Carrara died a few years before and was welcomed by a Ferrara ravaged by plague.

Edward Gibbon told this story in his Miscellaneous Works, and George Byron wrote the poem Parisina in 1816.



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