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Vincenzo Gonzaga

Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
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Vincenzo I Gonzaga in Coronation Robes (1587)
Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
Reign 14 August 1587-9 February 1612
Coronation 22 September 1587
Predecessor Guglielmo Gonzaga
Successor Francesco IV Gonzaga
Born (1562-09-21)21 September 1562
Mantua
Died 9 February 1612(1612-02-09) (aged 49)
Mantua
Burial 9 February 1612
Basilica of Sant'Andrea
Spouse Margherita Farnese
Eleonora de' Medici
Issue
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Full name
Vincenzo Gonzaga
House House of Gonzaga
Father Guglielmo Gonzaga
Mother Eleanor of Austria
Signature Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua's signature
Full name
Vincenzo Gonzaga

Vincenzo Ι Gonzaga (21 September 1562 – 9 February 1612) was ruler of the Duchy of Mantua and the Duchy of Montferrat from 1587 to 1612.

He was the only son of Guglielmo X Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Archduchess Eleanor of Austria. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Vincenzo was a major patron of the arts and sciences, and turned Mantua into a vibrant cultural center. On September 22, 1587, Vincent was crowned the fourth Duke of Mantua, with a glitzy ceremony in which were present the highest authority of the duchy to pay homage to the new Duke of Mantua: he then moved with a ride through the city streets. Vincenzo employed the composer Claudio Monteverdi and the painter Peter Paul Rubens. In 1590 Monteverdi became a viol-player and cantor in the music chapel of Vincenzo; in 1602 Vincenzo appointed him master of music on the death of Benedetto Pallavicino. Vincenzo was also a friend of the poet Torquato Tasso. A small book published in Verona in 1589 describes how a comic actor named Valerini in the service of Vincenzo imagines an ideal gallery of art, in which statues of the most important art collectors are featured rather than the work of the artists themselves. Vincenzo was described as a colossus who would dominate the entire ideal gallery, called the Celestial Gallery of Minerva.

The astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini also served as tutor to Vincenzo's sons, Francesco and Ferdinando.


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