Gardner, Edmund Garratt · London: Duckworth and Co · leaf 80
: And this because we have always desired to have somerepresentation of that lord, whom we continually lovedas a father, and we have striven to tread in his footstepsand imitate his customs, as being most praised andtruly worthy of a prince. This portrait has been the 1 Venturi, Larte ferrarese net… … WoeH «« GO PQ pq ° 3 H0 BALDASSARE DESTE 49 more dear to us inasmuch as it has been most worthilyexecuted; for, when we gaze on him thus depicted, weseem to see him alive.1* On his return to Ferrara, Baldassare found a changein the situation. The new Duke Ercole, representingthe legitimate line of…
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