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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 770th most popular nobleman (down from 730th in 2019), the 2,524th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,434th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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Over the past year Vespasiano I Gonzaga has had the most page views in the with 8,610 views, followed by English (4,014), and Spanish (2,082). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (46.70%), Serbo-Croatian (20.16%), and Afrikaans (4.37%)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 770 out of 1,415. Before him are Philip I of Namur, Diane, Duchess of Württemberg, Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence, Maddalena de' Medici, Herman II, Margrave of Baden, and Christina Gyllenstierna. After him are Herman I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia, Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Girart de Roussillon, Salomon, King of Brittany, and Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1531, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 7. Before him are Şehzade Cihangir, Mohammad Khodabanda, Anna d'Este, António, Prior of Crato, Alonso Sánchez Coello, and Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. After him are Bernardo Buontalenti, and James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray. Among people deceased in 1591, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 15. Before him are Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Jacobus Gallus, Jost Amman, Luis de León, Anna Sophia of Prussia, and Anna of Hesse. After him is Emilie of Saxony.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 2,524 out of 5,161. Before him are Romano Scarpa (1927), Maddalena de' Medici (1473), Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (1220), Giuseppe Giacosa (1847), Barbara Longhi (1552), and Armando Trovajoli (1917). After him are Luigi Bertolini (1904), Piero Marini (1942), Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), and Giovanni Visconti (1290).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Vespasiano I Gonzaga ranks 80. Before him are Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria (1834), Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma (1635), Castruccio Castracani (1281), Margaret of Sicily (1237), Lucrezia Barberini (1628), and Maddalena de' Medici (1473). After him are Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1817), Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara (1564), Contessina de' Bardi (1390), Matteo II Visconti (1319), Guy, Margrave of Tuscany (900), and Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (1616).

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