Ginevra d'Este

Ginevra d'Este (24 March 1419 - 12 October 1440) was an Italian noblewoman.

She and her twin sister Lucia (died 1437) were daughters of Niccolò III d'Este and his second wife Parisina Malatesta - they also had a younger brother, who died aged a few months.

Five years later Niccolò remarried to Ricciarda di Saluzzo, giving Ginevra two other half-brothers (Ercole and Sigismondo), in addition to her father's other illegitimate children.

[4] In 1461 Pope Pius II accused Pandolfo of several crimes, including killing Ginevra, and excommunicated him.

[5] Ginevra is briefly mentioned in The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde as its claimed her husband gave her poison "in an emerald cup"

Portrait of a Princess by Pisanello - the sitter may be Ginevra. [ 1 ] The woman also wears a twig of juniper an allusion to her name [ 2 ] .