Corpus Domini, Ferrara

Facade of the monastery

Tombstone of Alfonso I, Lucrezia Borgia and some of their children

The Corpus Domini Monastery is a monastery at 4 via Pergolato in Ferrara. Its public church was decorated in the late-Baroque period. On its high altar is Communion of the Apostles by Giambettino Cignaroli (1768), whilst the church's ceiling fresco Glory of Saint Catherina Vegri is by Giuseppe Ghedini (1770-1773).

Notable burials

The church is the burial-place for several members of the House of Este:

• Leonello d'Este
• Eleanor of Naples
• Niccolò III d'Este
• Ricciarda, Marchioness of Saluzzo
• Ercole I d'Este
• Sigismondo d'Este
• Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
• Giulio d'Este
• Ferrante d'Este
• Ercole II d'Este
• Eleonora d'Este
• Lucrezia Borgia
• Lucrezia de' Medici
• Alfonso II d'Este

External links

• http://www.elisabettagulino.it/musei-e-monumenti/ferrara/s-antonio-in-polesine-corpus-domini-tombe-estensi.html

Coordinates: 44°49′56″N 11°37′36″E / 44.8323°N 11.6267°E / 44.8323; 11.6267