Terrified of her new husband Barbara devised a plan to safe guard herself and gain the higher hand on the cold Duke. It was rumored that she had died from ill humors in the Duke’s own nunnery but behind whispering hands at court it was said she was murdered by the Duke himself. To save herself from becoming a victim of her new husband she must find out the truth about the circumstances that surrounded young Lucrezia’s death. The great mystery surrounding Lucrezia’s life and death would haunt Barbara from the moment she arrived in Ferrara. Lucrezia de’ Medici was a forbidden topic unless you wanted to incur the wrath of the Duke by bringing up his dead wife. The death of the first Duchess of Ferrara was mysterious and it was the one topic that hovered on everyone’s lips at the Ferrarese court. She became Alfonso’s second Duchess of Ferrara. The newly married couple was older and Barbara unlike her husband was a novice. "Imperial" Barbara was married to the Duke of Ferrara Alfonso d’ Este. Barbara of Austria was anything but a young and extraordinarily beautiful new bride.
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