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The Duchy of Urbino was an independent duchy in early modern central Italy, corresponding to the northern half of the modern region of Marche. It was directly annexed by the Papal States in 1625. It was bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Republic of Florence in the west and the Papal States in the south. In 1523 the capital was moved ...
- Francesco Maria II Della Rovere
Biography. Born at Pesaro, Francesco Maria was the son of...
- Urbino
The Ducal Palace A view from Urbino View of the Duomo....
- Francesco Maria II Della Rovere
Da Montefeltro. The House of Montefeltro is the name of a historical Italian family who ruled Urbino and Gubbio and became Dukes of Urbino in 1443. The family extinguished in the male line in 1508 and the duchy was inherited by the Della Rovere family.
- 11th century
- Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
- Antonio I da Montefeltro
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Banner of Arms of the Duchy of Urbino. It was bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Republic of Florence in the west and the Papal States in the south. In 1523 the capital was moved from Urbino to Pesaro. After the short rule by Cesare Borgia in 1502–08, the dukedom went to the della Rovere papal family, who held it until 1625, when ...
Mar 26, 2024 · Medici family. Ippolito de’ Medici (born 1509, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino—died August 10, 1535, Itri, Papal States) was an Italian cardinal and one of the pawns in the civil strife of Florence in the 1520s and 1530s. Only seven years of age on the death of his natural father, Giuliano de’ Medici, duc de Nemours, Ippolito was cared for by his ...
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Jan 24, 2017 · Painted between 1465 and 1472, Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino is both one of Piero della Francesca's greatest works and one of the most famous portraits from the Italian Renaissance ...
Montefeltro, Federigo da (1422 – 1482). The Duke of Urbino, a skilled condottiere, and a renowned patron of Renaissance art and scholarship. Born in the Umbrian hill town of Gubbio, an illegitimate son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro, the Duke of Spoleto and lord of Urbino, Federigo was raised in an aristocratic court and knighted by the Holy Roman Emperor at the age of fifteen.
