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unusual facts about Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este



1583 in music

Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.

Abbey of Vangadizza

The creation of the abbey is generally connected with the large donations from marquis Aimeric of Este, in the 950s, followed by others from Hugh of Tuscanya few years later.

Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio

The legitimacy of the succession was recognized by the Emperor Rudolph II but not by Pope Clement VIII: thus, as Ferrara was nominally a Papal fief, the city was returned to the Papal States, despite the attempts of the young duke, who sought help from the Major Powers to no avail.

Alice Vieira

1983 - Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian de Literatura Infantil, for Este Rei que Eu Escolhi.

Alvise Cornaro

As financial advisor to the Bishop of Padua he secured for Falconetto the commission to design the Villa dei Vescovi ("Villa of the Bishops") at Luvigliano, in the Eugaean Hills, as well as his own Villa Cornaro in Este.

Antonio Brucioli

Having been first denounced in 1548 and found guilty of disseminating heretical materials (but not of heresy), he fled to the tolerant court of Ferrara and the protection of Renata d'Este.

Astyanax

From these rulers is descended Ruggiero II, father of the hero Ruggiero, legendary founder of the house of Este.

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan, and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble.

Battle of Polesella

When Duke Alfonso I d'Este entered Ferrara five days later, his wife Lucrezia Borgia was waiting for him with her maids of honour, the court and the jubilant population.

Castello Estense

The itinerary of the restoration of the castle has gone through important steps to remember: the exhibition "The Triumph of Bacchus" inaugurated in 2002 by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and the art exposition "The Este in Ferrara" opened on 14 March 2004 by the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi.

Central Argentine Railway

The lines handled by F.C.O.S., which served the southwest of Santa Fe Province and the south of Córdoba (up to the city of Cruz Alta), were merged with those of the larger company, and the passenger services handled by Rosario Oeste Santafesino Station were transferred to Rosario Central Station, while the former was renamed Rosario Este.

Chacao, Venezuela

Some signature office buildings include Parque Cristal, Letonia Center, HP Tower, Atlantic Building, La Castellana Center, Multicentro Empresarial del Este, Centro Lido, Centro San Ignacio, KPMG Tower, Forum Tower, Shell Tower, and other important architectural landmarks.

Constantine Kastrioti

Along with Constantine's cavalry, Francesco del Balzo, the Duke of Andria who had remained loyal to Ferdinand, managed to defeat Ercole d'Este, one of the pro-Angevin nobles in Gargano.

Davide Antonio Fossati

In 1728 he painted the dining-hall in the monastery of St. Martinsberg at Pressburg; but in 1730 he returned to Venice, and in the next year executed the wall-paintings in the villa at Torre, near Este, as also in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta, near Lauis.

Duchy of Modena and Reggio

In the course of the Italian unification period in the 1830's-60's, the "Austria-Este" dukes were briefly ousted in the revolutions 1831 and 1848, but soon returned.

Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara

Isabella (1474–1539), who would later prove to be one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance

Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena

In 1785 he founded the Atesine Academy of Fine Arts: during his reign arts and culture flourished, and among his protegées were Lazzaro Spallanzani, Giambattista Venturi, Girolamo Tiraboschi, Lodovico Ricci and others.

Este sau nu este Ion

Este sau nu este Ion is a poetry collection by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller.

Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena

A Franco Modenese alliance was proposed with Francesco and a Princess of the House of Lorraine named Béatrice Hiéronyme was the eldest daughter of François Marie de Lorraine, Prince de Lillebonne.

Garfagnana

The Garfagnana is an historical region of Italy, today part of the province of Lucca in the Apennines, in northwest Tuscany, but before the unification of Italy it belonged to the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, ruled by the Este family.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Gittern

Charles V of France's court recorded four, including one of ivory, while the courts of Este and Ferrara recorded the hiring of gittern masters.

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio

Later he lived in Rome, in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.

Giulio d'Este

The half siblings of Giulio, who Ercole fathered with his wife Eleonora d'Aragona, were Alfonso I d'Este (successor to his father), Ippolito d'Este (Cardinal Ippolito), Ferrante d'Este, Isabella d'Este (wife of Francesco II Gonzaga), Beatrice d'Este (wife of Ludovico Sforza), and Sigismondo d'Este.

Ippolito II d'Este

He had the Villa d'Este built in Tivoli by Mannerist architect Pirro Ligorio, to match the other palaces he was building in Rome.

Juan Carlos Baglietto

On a more traditional vein, together with Lito Vitale he headed a collaboration that culminated in Postales de este lado del mundo (1991), an album which included themes from popular traditional Argentine composers, like Carlos Gardel, Homero Manzi, the brothers Expósito, Mariano Mores, Enrique Santos Discépolo and María Elena Walsh.

Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Her brother managed to find good matches for the Martinozzis: Laura was married to Alfonso IV d'Este; Anna Maria to Armand, Prince of Conti.

Livia d'Arco

Livia d'Arco (c. 1565–1611) was an Italian singer in the court of Alfonso II d'Este in Ferrara.

Margherita Maria Farnese

She was married to her cousin Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena who had previously been part of a Franco-Modenese alliance was proposed with Francesco and a princess of Lorraine named Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine but the marriage never materialised.

Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti

He worked on many royal commissions, including work for Lionello d'Este and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Up to the year of his marriage to Taddea Gonzaga, the daughter of the Count of Novellara (1472), he had received many marks of favour from Borso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, having been sent to meet Frederick III (1469), and afterwards visiting Pope Paul II (1471) in the train of Borso.

Modena Codex

By the mid-1430s, the manuscript had been moved to the Este family library in Ferrara, where it remained until the family library holdings were moved to Modena.

Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara

After inheriting his lands from Aldobrandino III, he allied with Padua, Verona and Mantua against Bernabò Visconti and, after a meeting at Viterbo, he managed to obtain also the support of Pope Urban V (1367).

Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara

In 1425 Niccolò had both his wife Parisina and his illegitimate son Ugo executed on charges of adultery.

Ocean Two

For 2010 it was the second tallest building in Costa del Este after The Point, and is currently ranked ninth.

Pallavicini family

A number of lines descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between Parma and Piacenza and a descendant of the Lombard Obertenga family (along with the Este, the Cavalcabò and Malaspina).

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.

Polesine

The rulers of the whole area (except for the new delta of the Po) were the Este; the area was formerly named County of Gavello, but two centuries after the disaster and due to the decline of the Abbey of Gavello it started being named County of Rovigo.

Portrait of Laura Dianti

It is signed "TICI/ANVS F." and depicts Laura Dianti, lover and later wife of Alfonso I d'Este.

Princess Anne of Orléans

Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuela Elena Gennara (born April 7 1930 at Capodimonte Palace).

Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria

Punta Del Este Sevens

The Punta del Este Sevens is an annual international rugby sevens tournament held in Uruguay, held at the resort of the same name in Maldonado Department.

Stafford Dean

Of particular note was his performance as Pooh-Bah in the BBC production of Mikado, and his outstanding rendition of the role of Alfonso d'Este in the 1980 Covent Garden production of Donizetti's opera Lucrezia Borgia.

Taddeo Crivelli

The Bible then entered the private collection of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, but after his assassination in 1914, it became part of the imperial library in Vienna.

The Bacchanal of the Andrians

The painting is now held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but it was commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este for his Camerini d'alabastro ('chambers of alabaster') in Ferrara.

Tourism in Uruguay

Growing steadily from the 1896 opening of Antonio Lussich's Arboretum in nearby Punta Ballena, Punta del Este today hosts around one million visitors during the summertime high season (December through February).

Tranvía del Este

Replacing them on the Tranvía del Este was another tram of the same type, but loaned from Madrid, Spain, where it was number 153 (a number it also used in Buenos Aires) in the fleet of the Metro Ligero de Madrid light rail system.

Woman with a Mirror

Several attempts have been made to identify the main female figure – these have included Titian's lover, Alfonso d'Este's lover Laura Dianti, or Federico Gonzaga's lover Isabella Boschetti.


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