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Baldassare Castiglione

Died in 1529

Baldassare Castiglione (died 1529) was born on 6 December 1478 at Casatico, near Mantua; his mother was related to the Gonzagas. He studied in Milan under the humanists Demetrios Chalkondyles and Giorgio Merula, served the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga, then in 1504 joined the Duke of Urbino, Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, and was sent on an embassy to England. He received the tonsure in 1521 and left in 1524 for Spain as papal nuncio to Charles V. Raphael painted his portrait, now in the Louvre. He died in Toledo in February 1529.

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