Background
She was the first daughter of Alfonso I d"Este, Duke of Ferrara and his second wife Lucrezia Borgia - as his first daughter, Alfonso named her after his mother Eleanor of Naples.
She was the first daughter of Alfonso I d"Este, Duke of Ferrara and his second wife Lucrezia Borgia - as his first daughter, Alfonso named her after his mother Eleanor of Naples.
She was brought up in Ferrara and her mother died when she was four - her father had two more children with Laura Dianti.
She became a nun at the Corpus Domini Monastery and was buried there alongside her mother and other members of her family.