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Federico Gonzaga, Cardinal of Monferrato. House. Gonzaga. Father. Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. Mother. Isabella d'Este. 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.
May 17, 2018 · He married Margaret of Montferrat in 1531 and when the last male heir to Montferrat died, Federico became Marquess of Montferrat, a title his descendants held until the 18th century. He commissioned Palazzo Te to be built as a summer palace just outside Mantua. Federico had long suffered from syphilis and died of the disease in 1540.
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Nov 4, 2016 · [Photo: the ceiling frescoes of Palazzo Te, designed by Giulio Romano for Federico II Gonzaga.] Isabella d’Este. While not an ‘original’ Gonzaga, Isabella d'Este (1474 - 1539) married into the family and is worth mentioning because she was one of the most influential women of the Renaissance and of the Italian cultural world of her time.
Of the dukes of Mantua. Posthumous son of Federico II Gonzaga and Margherita Paleologa, marchioness of Monferrato. Venetian patrician. Called the Cardinal of Monferrato. His eldest brother, Francesco, was duke of Mantua; and when he died, Guglielmo, the second-born male, became the duke of Mantua. Nephew of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (1527).
When Federico II Gonzaga was born on 17 May 1500, in Mantova, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austria, his father, Francesco II Gonzaga, was 33 and his mother, Isabella d'Este, was 25. He married Margherita Paleologa on 16 November 1531. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Margherita Paleologa, Isabella Boschetti
<br/>This portrait dates to 1510 and depicts ten-year-old Federico II Gonzaga (1500–1540), future Duke of Mantua and son of the great Renaissance patron and collector Isabella d’Este (1474–1539). Isabella commissioned the painting as a memento of her son, who was soon to be sent from his home in Mantua to the papal court in Rome as part of a hostage exchange. Federico’s detainment ...
In 1531 Federico married Margherita Palaeologus, who was a descendent of the emperors of the Byzantine Empire and who inherited the duchy of Monferrat. Because of her Greek ancestry, a fresco cycle by Giulio Romano illustrating the Trojan War in Mantua's Palazzo Ducale was presented from the Greek point of view expressed in Homer's Iliad rather ...
