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Ercole Gonzaga (23 November 1505 – 2 March 1563) was an Italian Cardinal. Biography. Born in Mantua, he was the son of the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga. He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pietro Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
Gonzaga, ERCOLE (HERCULES), cardinal; b. at Mantua, November 23, 1505; d. March 2, 1563. He was the son of the Marquess Francesco, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga (1469-1525). He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
Cardinal ; b. at Mantua, 23 November, 1505; d. 2 March, 1563. He was the Son of the Marquess Francesco, and nephew of Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga (1469-1525). He studied philosophy at Bologna under Pomponazzi, and later took up theology.
Overview. Ercole Gonzaga. (1505—1563) Quick Reference. (1505–63), Cardinal and regent of Mantua, the second son of Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d' Este. He was consecrated bishop at the age of 16, and was then educated at ... From: Gonzaga, Ercole in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »
Ercole Cardinal Gonzaga † Deceased Bishop of Mantova, Italy Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga (b. 1505), papal legate and president of the Council of Trent, had died two nights earlier. His remains lay in a casket borne on a bier while a servant carried a crucifix before it. The casket was surrounded by twelve lighted torches.
Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga is an attractive but ambiguous figure in sixteenth-century Italian religious history. A member of the ducal Gonzaga family as well as a bishop who for seventeen years was de facto ruler of Mantua, he had no precise Italian counterpart; closer would have been a German prince-bishop. Curiously
