distinguished family, one of the seven children of Count Gianfrancesco da Gambara and Alda Pio da Carpi. Her family contained a number of distinguished female...

through their associated families of Pallavicino, Rossi, Sanvitale and Da Correggio. These created a kind of new feudalism, building towers and castles throughout...

Montechiarugolo; Gianfrancesco Sanvitale, Lord of Sala Baganza; Girolamo Sanvitale, son of Barbara Sanseverino; Giambattista Masi, Lord of Felino; Girolamo da Correggio...

Simonetta, her firstborn Girolamo and his child Gianfrancesco, Alfonso II Sanvitale, Count Girolamo da Correggio, Count Alberto of Canossa, the Marquise of...

significant center of Renaissance art and humanism. Marquis Gianfrancesco Gonzaga had brought Vittorino da Feltre to Mantua in 1423 to open his famous humanist...

from the eyes of the priests who tried to resist. Pieces by Correggio, Parmigianino and Cima da Conegliano all entered into the ducal collection in this...

important patron of the arts. This began when Gianfrancesco Gonzaga funded a school led by Vittorino da Feltre where music and art were core subjects...

Ludovico II eliminated his relatives, seizing power for himself in 1370. Through a payment of 120,000 golden florins in 1433, Gianfrancesco was appointed...

views. Giovanni was born at Mirandola, near Modena, the youngest son of Gianfrancesco I Pico, Lord of Mirandola and Count of Concordia, by his wife Giulia...

Carafa, wife of Gianfrancesco Pico and defined as a "tyrannically avaricious woman", was accused by the partisans of her nephew Galeotto II Pico of having...