Ercole Strozzi
Ercole Strozzi (Ferrara, September 2, 1473 – Ferrara, June 6, 1508) was an Italian poet, the son of Tito Vespasiano Strozzi. He was a friend of Lucrezia Borgia, to whom he dedicated the poem La caccia. He married the poet Barbara Torelli and was murdered in Ferrara by an unknown assailant.[1]
Murder
On the morning of 6 June 1508, the body of Ercole Strozzi was found on the road near the Church of San Francesco in Ferrara,
References
- ^ Durant, Will (1953). The Renaissance. The Story of Civilization. Vol. 5. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 270.
- ^ a b Bradford, Sarah (2005). Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. Penguin Books. pp. 282–283.
- ISBN 1-84212-616-4.
- ISBN 1-84212-616-4.
- ^ Ariosto biography.