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Ferrante Gonzaga. Ferrante I Gonzaga (also Ferdinando I Gonzaga; 28 January 1507 – 15 November 1557) was an Italian condottiero, a member of the House of Gonzaga and the founder of the branch of the Gonzaga of Guastalla. Biography The Triumph of Ferrante Gonzaga over Envy by Leone Leoni, Guastalla, Italy
Prince Ferrante Vincenzo Gonzaga was born in 1889, the only son of Prince Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga, Marquess of Vescovato, general in the Royal Italian Army during the First World War and awarded the victory title of Marquis of the Vodice in 1932. At the death of his father in 1938, Gonzaga inherited the titles of Prince of the Holy Roman ...
Ferrante I Gonzaga, detto anche Ferrando, conte di Guastalla e principe di Molfetta (Mantova, 28 gennaio 1507 – Bruxelles, 15 novembre 1557), è stato un nobile e condottiero italiano, uomo di fiducia dell'imperatore Carlo V d'Asburgo che lo nominò Viceré di Sicilia dal 1535 al 1546 e Governatore di Milano dal 1546 al 1554; dal 1539 fu sovrano della Contea di Guastalla
Ferrante's grandson, Ferrante II, also played a role in the War of the Mantuan Succession. A further cadet branch was that of Sabbioneta , founded by Gianfrancesco , son of Ludovico III . Marie Louise Gonzaga , daughter of Prince Charles Gonzaga-Nevers , was a Polish queen consort from 1645 to her death in 1667.
Apr 9, 2024 · Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga came of age during a time of intense change in sixteenth-century Italy: The Italian Wars (1494–1559). The first and third-born sons of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga spent their formative years at the courts of Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain, where, as effectively diplomatic hostages, they learned valuable lessons about the transnational social codes and rituals central to sixteenth-century political life.
He was born in Mantua, the third son of Francesco II Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este. At the age of sixteen, he was sent to the court of Spain as a page to the future emperor Charles V, to whom Ferrante remained faithful for his whole life. In 1527 he took part in the Sack of Rome and attended Charles' triumphant coronation at Bologna in 1530: at ...
Vincenzo Ferrante Gonzaga was an Italian soldier who died in WWII, and he was awarded a gold and silver medal of military valour. The son of the soldier Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga, Marquis of Vescovato and Vodice, inherited other noble titles on the death of his father in addition to the title of Marquis. After graduating in engineering from the University of Turin, he decided to pursue a military career.
