Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino

Eleonora Gonzaga painted by Titian. Uffizi Gallery, Italy.

Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino (31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570[1][2] was Duchess and for sometime regent of Urbino by marriage to Francesco Maria I della Rovere, duke of Urbino. She served as regent during the absence of her spouse in 1532.[3]

  1. ^ Sally Anne Hickson, "Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries," (New York: Routledge, 2016), 87.
  2. ^ Louis Mayeul Chaudon, “Nuovo dizionario istorico: ovvero, Istoria in compendio,” (Naples: Michele Morelli, 1794), 98.
  3. ^ ELEONORA Gonzaga, duchessa di Urbino. di Sonia Pellizzer - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 42 (1993)