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Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk (Italian: il Turco), also spelled Lodovico (also Ludovico II; 5 June 1412 – 12 June 1478) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
ABOUT US. FEATURES. 5 June 2017. Ludovico III Gonzaga – Marquis of Mantua. Condottiero fought to improve the town of his birth. Ludovico Gonzaga in a detail from a. painting by Andrea Mantegna. Ludovico Gonzaga, who ruled his native city for 34 years, was born on this day in 1412 in Mantua.
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When Ludovico Gonzaga III was born on 5 June 1412, in Mantova, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austria, his father, Gianfrancesco Gonzaga I, Marchese di Mantova, was 17 and his mother, Paola Agnese Malatesta, was 19. He married Barbara Von Bradenburg on 12 November 1433, in Wedding, Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
By commissioning Mantegna to paint the chamber, Ludovico III Gonzaga, the Marquis of Mantua, sought to give the Gonzaga rule more cultural credibility at a time when other Northern Italian courts such as the Ferrara were commissioning their own “painted chambers”.
Also known as. Lodovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. primary name: primary name: Gonzaga, Lodovico III. other name: other name: (Marquis of) Mantua.
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk, also spelled Lodovico was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, also spelled Lodovico (also Ludovico II; 5 June 1412 – 12 June 1478) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
