A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ariosto Lippa
ARIOSTO LIPPA,
Concubine of Opizzon, Marquis of Este and Ferrara, confirmed in such a manner by her faithfulness and political skill, the impressions that her beauty had made upon the heart of this marquis, that at last he made her his lawful wife, in 1352. He died in the same year, and left to her the administration of his dominions, in which she acquitted herself well, during the minority of her eleven children. From her came all the house of Este, which still subsist, in the branch of the dukes of Modena and of Rhegio. The author from whom I borrow this, observes, that Lippa Ariosta did more honour to her family, which is one of the noblest in Ferrara, than she had taken from it.