page_title: Azzo VI of Este
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Azzo VI of Este / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Badia Polesine, province of Rovigo: Tomb of Azzo VI of Este and his wife Alice of Chatillon in front of Vangadizza Abbey. Italiano: Badia Polesine: il sarcofago che contenne i resti di Azzo VI d'Este e della moglie Alice di Chatillon sito nella piazza antistante l'Abbazia della Vangadizza.
context_page_description: Azzo VI, also known as Azzolino, was an Italian nobleman and condottiero. He held the title of Marquis of Este from the death of his father, Azzo V until his death.
context_section_description: Azzo's court was a cultural centre in northern Italy, drawing poets and artists from afar. He played host and patron to the troubadours Aimeric de Peguilhan, Peire Raimon de Tolosa, and Rambertino Buvalelli. Rambertino celebrated Azzo's daughter Beatrice in all of his love songs, an overtly political act in the climate of the times.
  In a contemporary vernacular vita of his daughter, the biography sums up Azzo's character and reputation: "he was beautiful of form, almost more than all other men. A prudent yet daring man, valiant in feats of arms and of perspicacious learning: a wise and marvellous conversationalist." Azzo is also mentioned in the third canto of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, where the sorceress is telling Bradamant of his illustrious descendants:
  Here is another Azzo; Verona shall be his, with its fair territory; and to him shall the Fourth Otto and Honorius II grant the title of Marquis of Ancona. It would tak me all too long were I to show you every one of your descendants who shall be standard-bearer at the Consistory, or were I to relate every exploit accomplished by them for the Church of Rome.
caption: The sarcophagus which once housed the remains of Azzo VI d'Este and his wife Alice of Châtillon, in the Abbey of Vangadizza, Badia Polesine.
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