_Isabel._ A refined girl, with lofty ideals and aspirations, who marries a widower with one child. She believes him a true man who will uplift her, and finds him a refined voluptuary, coldly calculating upon the advantages to be gained from her fortune. Still faithful to herself, Isabel repels the love of a man who thoroughly appreciates her, and flies from him and temptation.—Henry James, Jr., _Portrait of a Lady_ (1881). _Isabel_, called the “She-wolf of France,” the adulterous queen of Edward II., was daughter of Philippe IV. (_le bel_), of France. According to one tradition, Isabel murdered her royal husband by thrusting a hot iron into his bowels, and tearing them from his body. =Isabell=, sister of Lady Hartwell, in the comedy of _Wit without Money_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1639). =Isabella= or =Isabelle=, a pale brown or buff color, similar to that of a hare. It is so called from the princess Isabella of Austria, daughter of Philip II. The tale is, that while besieging Ostend, the princess took an oath that she would not change her body-linen before the town was taken. The siege, however, lasted three years, and her linen was so stained that it gave name to the color referred to (1601-1604). The same story is related of Isabella of Castile at the siege of Grena´da (1483). The horse that Brightsun was mounted on was as black as jet, that of Felix was grey, Cherry’s was as white as milk, and that of the Princess Fairstar an Isabella.—Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“Princess Fairstar,” 1682). _Isabella_, daughter of the king of Galicia, in love with Zerbi´no, but Zerbino could not marry her because she was a pagan. Her lament at the death of Zerbino is one of the best parts of the whole poem (bk. xii.). Isabella retires to a chapel to bury her lover, and is there slain by Rodomont.—Ariosto, _Orlanda Furioso_ (1516). _Isabella_, sister of Claudio, insulted by the base passion of An´gelo, deputy of Vienna, in the absence of Duke Vincentio. Isabella is delivered by the duke himself, and the deputy is made to marry Mariana, to whom he was already betrothed.—Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_ (1603). _Isabella_, wife of Hieronimo, in _The Spanish Tragedy_, by Thomas Kyd (1588). _Isabella_, mother of Ludov´ico Sforza, duke of Milan.—Massinger, _The Duke of Milan_ (1622).