Labels:text | letter | font | handwriting | screenshot | document | ink OCR: Cecilia Gallerani Letter of Response to Isabella d'Este April 29, 1498 Mantova, Archivio di Stato di Mantova, Archivio Gonzaga, busta 1615 Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantova and sister of Duke Ludovico Sforza's late wife, Beatrice, writes to Cecilia Gallerani, a former mistress of Ludovico and the subject of Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, to ask if Cecilia would be kind enough to send her portrait so that Isabella and her friends may compare Leonardo's work to that of Giovanni Bellini. Cecilia Gallerani writes to Isabella d'Este expressing her willingness to send the portrait to Isabella in Mantova.
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