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Marquisate of Mantua. Northern Italy in 1796; the Duchy of Mantua can be seen centre-right, shaded in orange, as part of the Duchy of Milan. The Marquisate or Margraviate of Mantua ( Italian: Marchesato di Mantova) was a margraviate located in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Placed under the sovereignty of the House of Gonzaga since its erection in ...
Ludovico Gonzaga, who ruled his native city for 34 years, was born on this day in 1412 in Mantua. He grew up to fight as a condottiero - a military leader for hire - and in 1433 he married Barbara of Brandenburg, the niece of the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund. After Ludovico entered the service of the Visconti family in Milan, he and his wife ...
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Scala/Art Resource, NY. Mantua was a small, damp, malaria-plagued town, but it occupied a strategic position along the route linking Italy and Germany. From 1327 it was under the control of the landowning Gonzaga family. Ludovico Gonzaga, who became marquis in 1444, served as condottiere for many more powerful cities, including Milan, Florence ...
Gonzaga, House ofThe Gonzaga family ruled the Italian city-state of Mantua throughout the Renaissance. Its first leader, Luigi I, seized power in the city in 1328. The Gonzaga were signori (lords) of Mantua until 1433, when the Holy Roman Emperor* gave them the title of marquis. By the 1470s, Gonzaga rulers had become powerful princes*, who ...
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The first record of a Jewish settlement in Mantua dates from 1145, when Abraham *Ibn Ezra lived there for a while. A small Jewish community existed during the heyday of the city-republic. Sometime after the Gonzaga had become lords of Mantua, Jewish bankers were invited to start operations in the capital and province. Subsequently the Jewish popula...
During its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries the community of Mantua made important contributions to the development of Jewish communal institutions in Italy. The assembly of all taxpayers elected a "large" council, which in turn elected a "small" or executive council of seven to ten members. Alongside these, several smaller executive committee...
S. Simonsohn, Toledot ha-Yehudim be-Dukkasut Mantovah, 2 vols. (1962–64); Milano, Bibliotheca, index, s.v.Mantova; Milano, Italia, index, s.v.Mantova; M. Mortara, Indice Alfabetico dei Rabbini… (1886), passim; Roth, Italy, index; idem, Jews in the Renaissance (1959), index; D.W. Amram, Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909), 30ff., 323ff.; M. Stein...
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk (Italian language: il Turco ),[1] 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.[2] Ludovico was the son of Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga and Paola Malatesta daughter of Malatesta IV Malatesta of Pesaro.[3] Ludovico followed the path of his father ...
Oct 10, 2022 · Ludovico succeeded to the marquisate of Mantua in 1444, although part of the family fiefs went to his brothers Carlo, Gianlucido and Alessandro. At the time, the Mantuan state was reduced in size and in poor conditions after years of war and large expenses.
