As compensation to the last sovereign duke, the title only could be continued by Francesco Maria II, and after his death by his heir, Federico Ubaldo.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

es: Federico Augusto II de Sajonia

it: Federico Augusto II di Sassonia

She served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the minority of her son, Federico, Duke of Mantua.

* Federico II, Duke of Mantua ( 17 May 1500 – 28 August 1540 ), married Margaret Paleologa, by whom he had issue.

it: Federico II di Brandeburgo

The University of Naples Federico II was founded by Frederick II in the city, the oldest state university in the world, making Naples the intellectual centre of the kingdom.

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy ( then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples ); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor ; in 1763 Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

The first Duke of Mantua was Federico II Gonzaga, who acquired the title from Emperor Charles V in 1530.

es: Federico II Hohenstaufen

it: Federico II del Sacro Romano Impero

tl: Federico II, Banal na Emperador ng Roma

In the beginning Assisi fell under the rule of Perugia and later under several despots, such as the soldier of fortune Biordo Michelotti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and Federico II da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino.

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle, one of the four mythological paintings commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, is a proto-Baroque work due to its depiction of movement, drama, and diagonal compositional arrangement. Aside from his religious output, Correggio conceived a now-famous set of paintings depicting the Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The voluptuous series was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga of Mantua, probably to decorate his private Ovid Room in the Palazzo Te.

* G. Cattaneo, Federico II di Svevia ( Rome, 1992 )

es: Federico II de Sicilia

Category: University of Naples Federico II alumni

Category: University of Naples Federico II alumni

Category: University of Naples Federico II alumni

# Federico II, Duke of Mantua, born 1500, died 1540.

In 1433, Gianfrancesco I assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua, and in 1530 Federico II ( 1500 – 1540 ) received the title of Duke of Mantua.

A cadet branch of the Mantua Gonzagas became Dukes of Nevers and Rethel in France when Luigi ( Louis ) di Gonzaga, a younger son of Duke Federico II and Margherita Paleologa, married the heiress.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

Airport director Vincenzo Fusco and air-traffic controller Paolo Zacchetti were both sentenced to eight years in prison ; sentences of six and a half years were given to Sandro Gualano, former head of the air traffic controllers ' agency, and Francesco Federico, former head of the airport.

By the time of Mannerist theorists such as Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Federico Zuccari ( both also painters ) this was far less of a priority.

it: Paolo Federico di Meclemburgo-Schwerin

Thuram formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes of Ciro Ferrara, Paolo Montero, Gianluca Pessotto, Mark Iuliano, Alessandro Birindelli, Igor Tudor, Gianluca Zambrotta, Nicola Legrottaglie, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Federico Balzaretti, and Jonathan Zebina during his 5 year tenure with the club.

The ad starred Paolo Villaggio, and was directed by the celebrated Federico Fellini.

* Paolo Spirito Academic Web Page at University of Naples Federico II.

Later, while defending his lands from the papal invasion army led by Piccinino, Federico III da Montefeltro and Malatesta Novello, he crushed them at Monteluro, managing to obtain some territories of Pesaro, although the latter

da: Federico Fellini

He was a welcomed guest at the Este court in Ferrara, and in Urbino he spent part of the hot-weather season with the soldier-prince Federico III da Montefeltro.

The secular fortunes of the Della Rovere began when Sixtus invested his nephew Giovanni with the lordship of Senigallia and arranged his marriage to the daughter of Federico III da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino ; from this union came a line of Della Rovere dukes of Urbino that lasted until the line expired in 1631.

*** daughter Battista, married Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

* September 10 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary ( b. 1422 )

It plays this role in Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity, and on the reverse of Piero della Francesca's portrait of Battista Strozzi, paired with that of her husband Federico da Montefeltro ( painted c 1472-74 ), Bianca's triumphal car is drawn by a pair of unicorns.

The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope — Urbino formed part of the Papal States — and who died the year before Raphael was born.

Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts.

* Piero della Francesca ( Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of Urbino )

it: Federico II da Montefeltro

pt: Federico II da Montefeltro

It revealed that Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, a renowned humanist and condottiere for the Papacy, was deeply embroiled in the conspiracy and had committed himself to position 600 troops outside Florence, waiting for the moment.

Bramante was born in Monte Asdrualdo ( now Fermignano ), under name Donato di Pascuccio d ' Antonio, near Urbino: here, in 1467 Luciano Laurana was adding to the Palazzo Ducale an arcaded courtyard and other features that seemed to have the true ring of a reborn antiquity to Federico da Montefeltro's ducal palace.

From the fifteenth century hence, most condottieri were landless Italian nobles who had chosen the profession of arms as livelihood ; the most famous of such mercenary captains was the son of Caterina Sforza, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, from Forlì, known as The Last Condottiere ; his son was Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ; besides noblemen, princes also fought as condottieri, given the sizable income to their estates, notably Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino ; despite war-time inflation, soldier ’ s pay was high:

* Federico III da Montefeltro ( 1422 – 1482 )

Smaller courts brought Renaissance patronage to lesser cities, which developed their characteristic arts: Ferrara, Mantua under the Gonzaga, Urbino under Federico da Montefeltro.

Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482.

* The main attraction of Urbino is the Palazzo Ducale, begun in the second half of the 15th century by Federico II da Montefeltro.

* Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, medieval condottiere and patron of the arts.

In 1474, Sixtus IV sent his nephew, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere ( later Julius II ); after fruitless negotiations he laid siege to the city, but Vitelli did not surrender until he learned that the command of the army had been given to Duke Federico III da Montefeltro.

da: Federico Castelluccio

Federico da Montefeltro.

Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro (