On May 18, 1452 he received confirmation over his fiefs, as Duke, by Emperor Frederick III.[1] On April 12, 1471, in St. Peter's Basilica, he was also appointed as Duke of Ferrara by Pope Paul II.
Borso followed an expansionist policy for his state, and one of ennobling for his family. He was generally allied with the Republic of Venice, and enemy both to Francesco I Sforza and the Medici family. These rivalries led to the indecisive Battle of Molinella. He was in general appreciated by his subjects.[citation needed] One cause of grievance was his project to build a mountain from scratch in 1471 – a folly he was later forced to abandon.[2]
A man of little education (unlike his brother Leonello), he had a pragmatic view of the arts as a powerful propaganda tool to promote his political ambitions by projecting an image of personal magnificence.[2][3] He liked to portray himself as an ideal ruler, as for example in the frescoes in Palazzo Schifanoia.[3] His traditional image as a magnanimous patron of arts, as later proclaimed in Ludovico Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso, is also an idealized representation.[2] While spending extravagantly on culture and spectacle to promote his political image, he was far from generous with the artists he patronized, whom he did not consider worthy of any special consideration.[3] A notorious example of this attitude was his miserly treatment of Cossa, who consequently abandoned Ferrara for Bologna.[4] His personal Bible (commissioned in 1455) is one of the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts of Renaissance Italy and a fabulously costly work of art;[n 1] however, its principal illuminator, Taddeo Crivelli, appears to have pawned parts of other manuscripts he was working on to alleviate financial instability.[6][7]
Borso never married and left no heirs. His successor was his half-brother Ercole I d'Este.
^Pius II (2003). Meserve, Margaret; Simonetta, Marcello (eds.). Commentaries, vol. I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 121.
^ abcLesychyn, Lubomyra. . Openaccess Dissertations and Theses. pp. 57ff. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
^ abcBeamish, Gordon Marshall. "Borso d'Este, 1st Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio". Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
^Lippincott, Kristen. "Cossa, Francesco del". Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
^Melograni, Anna (April–June 2008). "Quanto costa la magnificenza? Il caso della "Bibia bella" di Borso d'Este". Bollettino d'Arte (in Italian). Rome: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali (144): 7–24. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
^ abRosenberg, Charles M. "Bible of Borso d'Este". Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
^Rosenberg, Charles M. "Crivelli, Taddeo". Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
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