Peter Paul Rubens, The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Trinity Room of the Archers, 1605,
Museum Doge's Palace and the Castle of San Giorgio, Mantua.
As once used in commercial radio with the songs here can also apply themes and subjects. Dedications are not there yet, but we are working. So after several calls / prayers to write heads of brides and indiademate and following extensive research on the subject, are almost ready. But then I discovered that my brother (Professor at the University of Jena) occasionally throws a look around here and so as not to lose face before all'esimio teacher, and not to tell my father with a sigh " and think that it is also a graduate ", I apologize, but a historical digression (Though gossipy background) is necessary. And speaking of marriage, of course.
Vincenzo I Gonzaga (1562-1612) Duke of Mantua and Monferrato, loves luxury, parties, music, theater, art. He has a brash, but is also a good administrator and a patron lavish and prodigal, protects and supports people such as Torquato Tasso and Claudio Monteverdi (author of the first opera in the history of music, Orpheus), built a theater with a thousand places, "discovered" in Flanders, a young man named Peter Paul Rubens and carries it to Mantua as court painter. The Duke, well known playboy with a catalog of achievements the envy of that stretch for his master, Leporello Don Giovanni, but has the misfortune to run into a vengeful future mother-in-law who can put to question the ability amatory until then "without blemish". The story is simple, Vincenzo Farnese at 19 marries a young, pretty, God-fearing who has a dowry of 300,000 crowns, a rich father and a general outfit. All this is of little value, because poor Margaret is revealed soon afflicted with a deformity that makes it unfit for marriage. After two years, Gonzaga, through the good offices of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo of Milan, the future saint, can be impossible to cancel the bond for the dynasty. The Farnese takes the veil as Sister Mary Lucina, and become the undisputed abbess in the monastery walls, you will devote to the theater passion that he shared with ex-husband. Vincent obviously back on the marriage market because the heir to a dukedom has the primary duty to procreate offspring for the dynasty. Among the eligible candidates is Eleonora de 'Medici, a prestigious party, the best offer then the square, but the question is not simple. The girl, who among other things, a cousin of Vincent, has a stepmother cumbersome, to say the pestiferous, Bianca Capello, second wife of Grand Duke of Florence, Francis I. The Capello, a former defeat dall'idropisia beautiful woman now and for years to rancid expected to be mistress, regarded as a parvenu and openly snubbed by all the small Italian courts, seizing the opportunity to avenge a bit '. The first lady of Florence has no objection to the marriage Medici-Gonzaga, but there would be a small detail, a trifle, so just to remove any remaining doubt. As the first Vincent marriage was annulled for lack of consummation, is not that the groom could kindly provide conclusive evidence of his virility? There is no way to get out, Grand Duchess foot down, and eventually gave Vincent. Place of trial Ferrara. Test bench closed a girl from the convent that the Medici they pledge themselves to compensate by giving dowry and her husband. The Gonzaga comes full of boldness, but after a few days, feeling cornered and all plant leaves. The first hand is a total fiasco and in the microcosm of small Italian courts has already started to laugh and Vincent, who feels ridiculed agree to try again. This time the seat of the test of manhood is chosen Venice with a corollary of the cardinal-judges. The girl called Giulia Albizzi guinea-pig, 21 years old and are promised more than 3000 crowns a husband for his trouble. On the evening of 11 March 1584 Vincenzo appointment comes with confidence and arrogance, sure that spicy foods eaten in abundance in the days before, they had the desired effect. Instead they are It is these who betrayed him and provoke a violent colic. The second episode resolves in a stalemate. It takes a third meeting to resolve the situation and to ensure the bride Gonzaga Florentine collection to which, despite the doubts of the mother-in-law (or as the case of suocerastra stepmother?), Will produce six children. Of course, Vincent was not a faithful husband, the Chronicle reported news of many lovers, often ostentatious much to the chagrin of legitimate wife who, not very willing to adapt to the use of the time to let it go and turn a blind eye to the amours, it seems he has done often a tragedy. Also because the pleasure-loving Duke, to run behind the skirts of beautiful ladies to leave more often than the weight of government on the shoulders of his wife.
The story of Vincenzo Gonzaga and his examination of masculinity in the cinema is over. In 1965, Pasquale Festa Campanile makes a play entitled "A Virgin for the Prince" in which Meredith gives a poor and a half star, branding him a product that oscillate between literature and humor to joke. " The extraordinary cast, with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Gonzaga, the beautiful Virna Lisi and then Philippe Leroy, Vittorio Caprioli, Mario Scaccia, Paolo Bourbons, Anna Maria Guarnieri and Tino Buazzelli.
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