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Federico I Gonzaga (25 June 1441 – 14 July 1484) was marquess of Mantua from 1478 to 1484, as well as a condottiero.
Federico II of Gonzaga (17 May 1500 – 28 August 1540) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua (first as Marquis, later as Duke) from 1519 until his death. He was also Marquis of Montferrat from 1536.
On 16 April 1529 Federico II Gonzaga, First Duke of Mantua (1500-1540), apologised to his uncle Alfonso d’Este for retaining Titian: perché ha conienzo un retratto mio qual molto desidero sii finito (because he has started a portrait of me which I greatly desire to be finished). In 1530 a second portrait of Federico in armour is also recorded.
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Federico I Gonzaga (25 June 1441 – 14 July 1484) was marquis of Mantua from 1478 to 1484, as well as a condottiero.
The great Renaissance collector Isabella d’Este, marchioness of Mantua, commissioned this portrait of her son Federico Gonzaga to console her after he was taken to the papal court in Rome as a hostage. Francia based it on sketches he made of the ten-year-old heir as he was escorted through Bologna on his way to surrender himself.
May 17, 2018 · Federico Gonzaga, who became the ruler of Mantua and Montferrat, was born on this day in 1500 in Mantua. He spent his childhood living as a political hostage, first at the court of Pope Julius II in Rome and then at the court of Francis I of France.
(1441—1484) Quick Reference. (1441–84), Marquis of Mantua, the son of Ludovico II Gonzaga and Barbara of Brandenburg, the niece of the Emperor Sigismund. He succeeded his father in 1478. Federico was a distinguished ... From: Gonzaga, Federico I in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance » Subjects: History — Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
