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Beautiful set of sheets containing drawings, notes and reliefs of the Ducal Palace in Mantua. The first depicts a "Laberinto", drawn on a sheet of 225 x 170 mm. The second sheet depicts part of the facade of an internal courtyard of the Palace, drawn in pencil, ink and watercolour, and thus we read: "The small courtyard that still exists near the Teatro Vecchio was square in shape...". The other sheet depicts, on one facade, a courtyard with a colonnade on all sides and two loggias; on the internal facade there is a drawing of two lunettes and a coat of arms, with an inscription relating to Isabella d'Este dated 1522. This is the inscription that celebrates the Secret Garden desired by Isabella d'Este, still preserved today.
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INTERESTING DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DUCAL PALACE, MANTUA.
The Secret Garden has risked being destroyed several times and instead, fortunately, it has reached us. It has not yet been possible to attribute its paternity to one or other of the prefects of the ducal factories but we can certainly say who its mother is: Isabella d'Este. The marquise signs it with an inscription that runs along the entire wall that encloses the garden and separates it from Piazza Pallone, which can be read here on one of the sheets: ISABELLA ESTENSIS, REGUM ARAGONUM NEPTIS, DUCUM FERRARIENSIUM FILIA ET SOROR, MARCHIONUM GONZAGARUM CONIUX ET MATER, FECIT A PARTU VIRGINIS MDXXII. (Isabella Estense, granddaughter of the kings of Aragon, daughter and sister of the dukes of Ferrara, wife and mother of the marquises Gonzaga, made 1522 the year from the birth of the Virgin). The rectangular space (about 80 square meters) is decorated with semi-columns and is organized into flowerbeds with a fountain in the middle, in place of the well mentioned in some descriptions of the garden.
The Secret Garden has risked being destroyed several times and instead, fortunately, it has reached us. It has not yet been possible to attribute its paternity to one or other of the prefects of the ducal factories but we can certainly say who its mother is: Isabella d'Este. The marquise signs it with an inscription that runs along the entire wall that encloses the garden and separates it from Piazza Pallone, which can be read here on one of the sheets: ISABELLA ESTENSIS, REGUM ARAGONUM NEPTIS, DUCUM FERRARIENSIUM FILIA ET SOROR, MARCHIONUM GONZAGARUM CONIUX ET MATER, FECIT A PARTU VIRGINIS MDXXII. (Isabella Estense, granddaughter of the kings of Aragon, daughter and sister of the dukes of Ferrara, wife and mother of the marquises Gonzaga, made 1522 the year from the birth of the Virgin). The rectangular space (about 80 square meters) is decorated with semi-columns and is organized into flowerbeds with a fountain in the middle, in place of the well mentioned in some descriptions of the garden.
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