Talk:Ippolito d'Este

Apocryphal?
This comes from the introduction of Penguin Classics Orlando Furioso, Volume I, by Ludovico Ariosto. The Introduction is by Barbara Reynolds. One fact it adds is that he was an Apostolic Protonotary at age 8.

"An episode in which both he an Alfonso were involved shows the brothers in an unpleasing light. It is related that in 1505, when Ippolito was paying court to Angela Borgia, who had come to Ferrara with her cousin, Lucrezia, on the latter's marriage to Alfonso, Angela laughingly remarked that his brother Giulio's eyes were worth more than the Cardinal's whole person. The next day, while out hunting, Giulio was set upon by a band of assassins who blinded him while Ippolito looked on. The doctors later succeeded in saving the sight of one eye. Giulio's demand for justice was disregarded, Alfonso merely sentenced Ippolito to nominal banishment." -- page 19

One might also be interested in my note on Talk:Alfonso I d'Este

JoshNarins (talk) 17:59, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What's the source of the anecdote? --Vicedomino (talk) 04:48, 11 April 2016 (UTC)