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Vespasiano I Gonzaga

1531 - 1591

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Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta (6 December 1531 – 26 February 1591) was an Italian nobleman, diplomat, writer, military engineer and condottiero. He is remembered as a patron of the arts and the founder of Sabbioneta, a town in Lombardy designed according to the Renaissance principles of the "ideal city". He was born in Fondi, a Colonna fief in the southern Latium, the son of Isabella Colonna and the condottiero Louis Gonzaga, lord of Palazzolo, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Gonzaga, Dukes of Mantua. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vespasiano I Gonzaga has received more than 34,855 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vespasiano I Gonzaga is the 732nd most popular nobleman (down from 428th in 2019), the 2,439th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,834th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 732 out of 842Before him are Bernhard von Spanheim, John Paul Getty III, Hanako, Princess Hitachi, Adolf III of the Marck, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, and Conrad I, Duke of Swabia. After him are Lady Katherine Grey, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Charlotte von Stein, and Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1531, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 9Before him are António, Prior of Crato, Anna d'Este, Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Alonso Sánchez Coello, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, and Bernardo Buontalenti.  Among people deceased in 1591, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 13Before him are Sen no Rikyū, Veronica Franco, Jacobus Gallus, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Luis de León, and Jost Amman. After him are Anna of Hesse and Anna Sophia of Prussia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 2,439 out of 4,668Before him are Cesare Siepi (1923), Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este (1726), Lanza del Vasto (1901), Publius Sulpicius Rufus (-124), Camillo Ruini (1931), and Antonio Barberini (1607). After him are Mauro Piacenza (1944), Alexander of Bergamo (201), Agostino Depretis (1813), Taddeo Zuccari (1529), Publius Rutilius Rufus (-158), and Alessandro Blasetti (1900).

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