Isabella D Este Quotes

“The fact that Isabella had failed her friend in the hour of her greatest need and effectively stolen her possessions was forgotten in her touching display of grief.”
― Leonie Frieda, The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“Isabella had spent her whole life chasing the capricious goddess Fortuna: what we call Chance or Luck. She held the Humanist belief that the vicissitudes of Chance could be managed-if not entirely, then to a greater extent than if she succeeded them, the result would be Virtú. In some senses this encapsulated the meaning of the Renaissance.”
― Leonie Frieda, The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance