3. List of illustrations v–vi

List of Illustrations
Figure 1. Eleonora d’Aragona and her brother, Alfonso, duke of Calabria
Calabria,at prayer with their mother, Queen Isabella of Naples, in the
Palatine Chapel Castel Nuovo, Naples. Predella of the S. Vincenzo Ferrer
altarpiece, Naples, Capodimonte Museum (formerly in San Pietro Martire,
Naples). Attributed to Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, circa 1465.
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Figure 2. Ercole d’Este receiving a book from an unknown author.
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, MS CI.1, 306, Vita B. Ioannis
a Tauxignano Episcopi Ferrariae, f. 1r.
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Figure 3. The Castel nuovo, Naples from the port: Tavola Strozzi (detail),
attrib. Francesco Rossselli, c.1472. Napes, Museo di San Martino. Source:
Giulio Pane, La Tavola Strozzi tra Napoli e Firenze: un immagine della
città nel Quattrocento. (Naples: Grimaldi, 2009), 34.
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Figure 4. Eleonora d’Aragona kisses the feet of Sixtus IV in St Peter’s,
Rome 1473. Fresco. Rome, Santo Spirito in Sassia, Corsia Sistina.
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Figure 5. Giannantonio da Foligno. Silver reliquary (detail showing
St Maurelio and an Olivetan monk, with the city walls, River Po and
Monastery of San Giorgio in the background). 1514. Ferrara, Monastery
of San Giorgio.
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Figure 6. Sperandio (c.1431–1504?), Ercole I d’Este and Eleonora
d’Aragona, probably 1473. Lead. Washington, National Gallery of Art,
Samuel H. Kress Collection 1957.14.709.
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Figure 7. Portrait of Eleonora d’Aragona, from the Genealogia dei
Principi d’Este (c. 1474–79). Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria,
MS Ita. 720 (formerly α.L.5.16).
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Figure 8. Anonymous woodcut of Ferrara in 1499, with the city walls and
the Porta San Paolo in the foreground and the Palazzo di Corte and Duomo
(with its viewing gallery) on either side of the paved main Piazza. In the
background are the beginnings of the New Addition which Ercole began in
1494. Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, MS Ita. 429 (formerly α
H.5.3).
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Figure 9. Dedication to Eleonora d’Aragona in Battista Guarino’s Latin
translation of Diomede Carafa, I doveri del principe as De regentis et
boni principis officiis, ff. 3v–4r. Ferrara c. 1474. Sale catalogue, Les
Enluminures, Paris, www.textmanuscripts. com, Ref. 396, accessed
7 July 2011.
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Figure 10. The impresa of the Order of the Ermine from the first
illustrated edition of Dialogo dell’imprese militari et amorose di
monsignor Giovio, vescouo di Nocera; con un Ragionamento di
messer Lodouico Domenichi, nel medesimo soggetto (Lyon:
Guglielmo Roviglio, 1559), 30–31. Early editions of the work, first
published in 1555, contained only the text.
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Figure 11. Portrait of Eleonora d’Aragona, title-page of the presentation
copy of Antonio Cornazzano, Il modo di regere e di regnare, 1478–79.
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 0731, f. 1r.
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Figure 12. Portrait of Ercole d’Este by Dosso Dossi. Source: Adriano
Cavicchi et al., Arte e storia a Belriguardo: la Sala delle Vigne (Voghera,
Belriguardo, 1997), 87.
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