Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Preface; 1. The d'Este of Ferrara; 2. The Estense inheritance; 3. The ducal palace; 4. The ducal capital; 5. Court errant: the itinerant court; 6. Princely piety; 7. The decoration and furnishing of palaces; 8. The ephemera of magnificence; 9. As the duke commands; Gazetteer; Plans and genealogical table; Abbreviations and the currency of Ferrara; Sources; Inventory of registers of the camera ducale; Bibliography; Appendices.
An illustrated account of the life and work of a leading patron of the Italian Renaissance.
' … imaginative, sensibly organised and well presented.' The Court Historian
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