Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . on,with 27,688 nliab., ami possesses broad, deserted streets, de-caying palaces, and other imposing reminiscences of its goldenperiod. It once numbered 100,000 inhab. , enjoyed great com-mercial prosperity, and was the seat of the renowned court ofthe illustrious House of Este , to which several great patrons ofliterature and art in the middle ages belonged. Ariosto andiasso were among the most brilliant stars of this court. The family o/ Este was of Tuscan extraction. Azzo I. became Countor Margrave of Este under Emp. Hen
Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . on,with 27,688 nliab., ami possesses broad, deserted streets, de-caying palaces, and other imposing reminiscences of its goldenperiod. It once numbered 100,000 inhab. , enjoyed great com-mercial prosperity, and was the seat of the renowned court ofthe illustrious House of Este , to which several great patrons ofliterature and art in the middle ages belonged. Ariosto andiasso were among the most brilliant stars of this court. The family o/ Este was of Tuscan extraction. Azzo I. became Countor Margrave of Este under Emp. Henry ill. His eldest son Welf (foundernf the younger branch of the Guelphs) was invested with the Duchy of Ba-varia, which had belonged to his grandfather, the lost male repreientativeof the elder branch of the (iuelphs, and his son Henry the Proud becamethe founder of the families of Brunswick and Hanover. Giulio, the secondwin of Welf, v\aa the ancestor of the dukes of Ferrara and Modena. Obizzo/I/., who added Jlodena and Reggio to his dominions (d. 1352), considera-.
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