Added information on her ruling in Solarolo and repositioned the date of her passing to the beginning of the following sentence for better flow.← Previous revisionRevision as of 15:42, 7 October 2026 Line 98: Line 98: ==== Later years and death ==== ==== Later years and death ==== Once Rome became stabilized following the sacking, she left the city and returned to Mantua. She made it a centre of culture, started a school for girls, and turned her ducal apartments into a museum containing the finest art treasures. This was not enough to satisfy Isabella, already in her mid-sixties, so she returned to political life and ruled [[Solarolo]], in [[Emilia-Romagna|Romagna]] until her death on 13 February 1539. She was buried beside her husband in the Church of Santa Paola in Mantua, but her remains were stolen.{{whose|reason=there are two sets of remains in scope here|date=September 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Canadè |first=Rossella |title=Dalle ossa riesumate l'altra faccia dei Gonzaga |url=http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/02/06/news/dalle-ossa-riesumate-l-altra-faccia-dei-gonzaga-1.148964|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429050046/http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/02/06/news/dalle-ossa-riesumate-l-altra-faccia-dei-gonzaga-1.148964 |archive-date=29 April 2014 }}{{Cite web|title=Este, Beatrice d' and Isabella d' – Dictionary definition of Este, Beatrice d' and Isabella d' {{!}} Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/este-beatrice-d-and-isabella-d|access-date=1 February 2018|website=www.encyclopedia.com}} Once Rome became stabilized following the sacking, she left the city and returned to Mantua. She made it a centre of culture, started a school for girls, and turned her ducal apartments into a museum containing the finest art treasures. This was not enough to satisfy Isabella, already in her mid-sixties, so she returned to political life and ruled [[Solarolo]], in [[Emilia-Romagna|Romagna]]. As her last large purchase, Isabella acquired the late Cardinal Sigismondo's countryside castle of Solarolo, in the territory of Faenza, and was responsible for overseeing improvements to the castle and maintaining well documented estate records.{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=Christine |title=Isabella d'Este: A Renaissance Princess |publisher=Routledge |year=2019 |pages=276}} Following her death on 13 February 1539, Isabella was buried beside her husband in the Church of Santa Paola in Mantua, but her remains were stolen.{{whose|reason=there are two sets of remains in scope here|date=September 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Canadè |first=Rossella |title=Dalle ossa riesumate l'altra faccia dei Gonzaga |url=http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/02/06/news/dalle-ossa-riesumate-l-altra-faccia-dei-gonzaga-1.148964|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429050046/http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/02/06/news/dalle-ossa-riesumate-l-altra-faccia-dei-gonzaga-1.148964 |archive-date=29 April 2014 }}{{Cite web|title=Este, Beatrice d' and Isabella d' – Dictionary definition of Este, Beatrice d' and Isabella d' {{!}} Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/este-beatrice-d-and-isabella-d|access-date=1 February 2018|website=www.encyclopedia.com}} == Appearance == == Appearance ==