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Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara

This character is a talented artist and a very young person when the character's family betroths the character to another.

Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara

This character is a powerful noble-person who is desperate to produce an heir to secure the character's bloodline and power.

Emilia

This character is a loyal servant to a main character who is murdered at the close of the book.

Cosimo, Grand Duke of Tuscany

This character is a powerful person who has many children and who considers the character's spouse as a nearly equal partner in running the province.

Eleanora, The Duchess of Florence

This character is known as "Fecundissima" because of the character's fertility.

Leonello Baldassare

This character is a brutal and brutish lieutenant to a powerful duke in Ferrara.

Elisabetta

This character is forced to watch a lover die by strangulation.

Jacopo

This character is a painter's apprentice...

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