Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

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Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
Federico III da Montefeltro
MotherBattista Sforza

Guidobaldo (or Guido Ubaldo) da Montefeltro (25 January 1472 – 10 April 1508), also known as Guidobaldo I, was an

Duke of Urbino
from 1482 to 1508.

Biography

Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro with His Son Guidobaldo (c. 1475), by Justus van Gent or/and Pedro Berruguete

Born in

Duke of Urbino
in 1482.

Guidobaldo married

Francesco II Gonzaga
, Marquis of Mantua. Guidobaldo was impotent, and they had no children, but Elisabetta refused to divorce him.

He fought as one of

Vitelli
, being freed the following year.

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

Notes and references

  1. ^ "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

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Italian nobility
Preceded by
Federico III
Duke of Urbino

1482–1502
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Duke of Urbino

1503–1508
Succeeded by