title: Ercole
text: # Ercole
  
  The male first name Ercole, Italian version of Hercules, can refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Ercole (name), list of people with the name
  
  ### House of D'Este
  
  * Ercole I d'Este (1431–1505), Duke of Ferrara
  * Ercole II d'Este (1508–1559), Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio
  * Ercole III d'Este (Ercole Rinaldo) (1727–1803), Duke of Modena and Reggio
  
  ## Opera and Film
  
  * Ercole amante (Hercules in Love), an opera by Francesco Cavalli
  * Ercole su'l Termodonte (Hercules in Thermodon), an opera by Antonio Vivaldi
  * Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (The Marriage of Hercules and Hebe), an Italian-German opera
  * Le pillole di Ercole, a 1962 Italian comedy film
  
  ## Places
  
  * Porto Ercole Italian town
  