Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an
intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of
the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Here, Piero
della Francesca, Jacopo Bellini and Andrea Mantegna decorated the
palaces of the House of Este. The humanist concept of the 'ideal city'
came to life here in the neighbourhoods built from 1492 onwards by
Biagio Rossetti according to the new principles of perspective. The
completion of this project marked the birth of modern town planning and
influenced its subsequent development.
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