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==Early life==
Although he was illegitimate, he was destined to succeed his father as Nicholò's eldest son.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bper.it/gruppobper/incontri/archivio/pdf_72/20_22_Trenti.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-05-14 |
His father never married his mother; but in 1414 married [[Parisina Malatesta]], nearly twenty years his junior. Ugo was at first treated coldly by his young stepmother, who was almost his own age.<ref name="parente1">{{cite web|url=http://www.parente.fe.it/maria_teresa_mistri/ferrara/fatti_miracoli_leggende/ugo_e_parisina.htm |title=Fatti, miracoli e leggende di Ferrara antica |website=Parente.fe.it |date= |accessdate=2017-04-25}}</ref>
==Fatal relationship==
In 1424, during a trip with his stepmother, they developed an improper relationship that went on even when the two returned to Ferrara.<ref name="parente1"/><ref name="trionfi1">{{cite web|author= |url=http://trionfi.com/0/d/13/index.php |title=Parisina and the Playing Cards |website=Trionfi.com |date=2010-08-08 |accessdate=2017-04-25}}</ref> Other sources report a different beginning to the affair: to escape the plague of 1423, they took refuge in the [[castello di Fossadalbero]] and there in the small castle their relationship was born.<ref name="rimini1">{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.rimini.it/servizi/citta/storia_di_rimini/-donne_di_rimini/pagina44.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-12-15 |
A maid reported the affair to Nicholò, who spied on the lovers and had them imprisoned in the castle where they were sentenced to death by decapitation.<ref name="rimini1"/>
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The tragic story has inspired several writers and musicians. The Renaissance Italian author [[Matteo Bandello]] wrote the novel ''Ugo and Parisina'', Edward Gibbon told this story in his ''[[Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon|Miscellaneous Works]]'', and [[George Byron]] wrote the poem ''[[Parisina]]'' in 1816. A libretto by [[Felice Romani]] after the English poem was set to music by [[Gaetano Donizetti]] in 1833 as ''[[Parisina (opera)|Parisina]]''. [[Pietro Mascagni]] composed a tragic opera ''[[Parisina (Mascagni)|Parisina]]'' based on the lyric tragedy written by [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] in 1912 as another adaptation of Byron's poem. There is also a lesser-known opera by [[Tomás Giribaldi]] (1878) and a tragedy by [[Antonio Somma]].
After Hugh's death, his younger brother [[Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara|Leonello]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.storiaviva.it/arruolamento_compagnia_di_san_pietro/lionello_d_este_350.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-03-12 |
==References==
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