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Baldassarre Castiglione
Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 December 1478, 1478
- Died
- 8 February 1529, 1529
- Conflict
- Siege of Mirandola
- Place of death
- Toledo
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Baldassarre, Baldassare
- Family name
- Castiglione
- Father
- Cristoforo Castiglione
- Mother
- Luigia Gonzaga
- Spouse
- Ippolita Torelli
- Child
- Camillo Castiglione
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Genre
- treatise, epistolary fiction, elegy
- Occupation
- diplomat, poet, writer, art historian, ambassador, bishop
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Milan
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- cause of death
- bubonic plague
- depicted by
- Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- end of work period
- 1529
- family
- House of Castiglione
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Beata Vergine delle Grazie (Grazie, Curtatone)
- start of work period
- 1503
- student of
- Georgius Merula, Dimitrios Chalkokondyles
- topic's main category
- Category:Baldassarre Castiglione
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