it in the works of authors almost always little known: Ludovico Antonio Muratori says she "princess for beauty, and for high ingenuity, worthy of greater life"; Luzio and Renier called her "the soul of all the exploits and delights of her husband"; Francesco Antonio Bianchini calls her "a woman of high feeling and of a manly soul", Anton Domenico Rossi "of soul more than manly"; Goffredo Casalis "woman of lively spirits and rare sense"; Samuele Romanin "princess of great talent and perspicacity, and although young, very knowledgeable of state affairs", and elsewhere: "poured into the things of state, more than not the women [...] she dominated her husband irresistibly, she was his adviser and excitator, and was seen later on the field of Novara raising his downed courage". Jean de Préchac add that she "had a great influence on the will of Ludovico: she was the only confidant and the ruler of his thoughts. The immature of her death [...] spread the days of Lodovico with bitterness; he had but disasters and ruins"; Raffaele Altavilla writes that Ludovico "used to draw every vigor of mind from the provident and strong advice of his bride", and Pier Ambrogio Curti that "our duke lacked the most effective advice, the soul of his enterprises, with the death of the unsead Beatrice d'Este, whom dominated him at her own will, and to whom he publicly flaunted an extraordinary affection, and from that hour he no longer had his propitious luck". Antonio Locatelli disagrees with many praises, saying that she "had only wickedness as a woman". Marital bond Love Ludovico, on the other hand, was sincerely in love with his wife, although he continued to have lovers even after the wedding, like most of the lords of the time. In a letter he writes of her: "she is more dear to me than the light of the sun". The harmony of the couple is confirmed by the courtiers, who saw him constantly turn caresses and kisses to his wife: "S.r Ludovico hardly ever takes his eyes off the Duchess of Bari" wrote tebaldo Tebaldi in August 1492; and already a short time after the wedding Galeazzo Visconti declared: "there is such a love between them that I don't think two people can love each other more". On the other hand, Malaguzzi Valeri notes that if it is true that the love shown by Ludovico should