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Ercole Gonzaga (23 November 1505 – 2 March 1563) was an Italian Cardinal. Biography. Born in Mantua, he was the son of the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga. He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pietro Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
Gonzaga, ERCOLE (HERCULES), cardinal; b. at Mantua, November 23, 1505; d. March 2, 1563. He was the son of the Marquess Francesco, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga (1469-1525). He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
Cardinal ; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563. He was the Son of the Marquess Francesco, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga (1469-1525). He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pomponazzi, and later took up theology. In 1520, or as some say, 1525, his uncle Sigismondo renounced in his favour the See of Mantua ; in 1527 his ...
Before dawn on March 4, 1563, the funeral procession set out from the city of Trent. Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (b. 1505), papal legate and president of the Council of Trent, had died two nights earlier. His remains lay in a casket borne on a bier while a servant carried a crucifix before it. The casket was surrounded by twelve lighted torches.
Ruling Peacefully provides the first in-depth study of this influential and paradoxical figure. Gonzaga emerges as a complex personality whose interests as the representative of a northern Italian ruling family could just as easily lead him to support reform in the Catholic Church as to hinder it.
- Paul V. Murphy
- 2007
The career of one such figure, Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1505-63) of Mantua, highlights this combination of worldliness and reform. This article addresses how Gonzaga's awareness of his place in society and the demands of honor for maintaining that place encouraged his patrician reform activity at least as much as it might have hindered him.
CARDINAL ERCOLE GONZAGA AND PATRICIAN REFORM IN SLXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY BY Paul V Murphy* In May of 1549 a colleague questioned the orthodoxy of Cardinal Er cole Gonzaga (1505-1563) based on another person's doubts. Gonzaga responded in his own hand and defended his orthodoxy in the follow ing terms:
