Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro | |
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Federico III da Montefeltro | |
Mother | Battista Sforza |
Guidobaldo (or Guido Ubaldo) da Montefeltro (25 January 1472 – 10 April 1508), also known as Guidobaldo I, was an
Biography
Born in
Guidobaldo married
He fought as one of
Guidobaldo was forced to flee Urbino in 1502 to escape the armies of Cesare Borgia, but returned after the death of Cesare Borgia's father, Pope Alexander VI, in 1503. He adopted as his heir Francesco Maria della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II, thus uniting the seigniory of Senigallia with Urbino. He aided Pope Julius II in reconquering the Romagna.
The court of Urbino was at that time one of the most refined and elegant in Italy. Many men of letters met there. The Italo-English historian Polydore Vergil may have worked in the service of Guidobaldo and Elisabetta as well as Baldassare Castiglione, the author of the book The Book of the Courtier, which describes the court of Urbino.
Suffering from gout, Guidobaldo died in Fossombrone at the age of 36, and was succeeded by his nephew.
In popular culture
In 2023, Guidobaldo gained interest on social media when American sports fans noted how he appeared striking similar to
See also
- Holy Conversation (Piero della Francesca)
- Portrait of Luca Pacioli
- Saint George and the Dragon (Raphael)
Notes and references
- ^ "New Trevor Lawrence doppelganger emerges in the halls of the Uffizi Gallery". Fox News. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
Sources
- Rendina, Claudio (1985). I capitani di ventura. Rome: Newton Compton. pp. 393–394.
- Pietro Bembo, Vita dello illustrissimo s. Guidobaldo duca d'Vrbino. E della illustriss. sig. Helisabetta Gonzaga sua consorte, Firenze, Lorenzo Torrentino 1555
- P. Giovio. Istorie dei suoi tempi, Venezia 1570
- F. Ugolini. Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in «Imparziale fiorentino», 1857
- Bernardino Baldi, Della vita e de' fatti di Guidobaldo I da Montefeltro, Duca d'Urbino libri dodici, Milano, Silvestri 1821
- G. Franceschini. I Montefeltro, Milano 1970
- C. H. Clough, A. Conti, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, duca di Urbino: fu mai gonfaloniere di Sancta Romana Ecclesia? in «Studi Montefeltrani», n. 27, San Leo 2006
External links
- The Gubbio Studiolo and its conservation, volumes 1 & 2, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (see index)