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Guidobaldo became a staunch friend of Galileo and helped him again in 1592, when he had to apply to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, due to the hatred and machinations of Giovanni de ' Medici, a son of Cosimo I de ' Medici, against Galileo.
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Guidobaldo and friend
She further displayed a shrewd political acumen in her negotiations with Cesare Borgia, who had dispossessed Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, the husband of her sister-in-law and good friend Elisabetta Gonzaga in 1502.
Guidobaldo and Galileo
Sarpi wrote on projectile motion in the period 1578 – 84, in the tradition of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia ; and then again in reporting on Guidobaldo del Monte's ideas in 1592, possibly by then having met Galileo Galilei.
Galileo, then a promising, but unemployed 26-years old, had written an essay on hydrostatic balance, which struck Guidobaldo as being nothing short of genius.
Guidobaldo and him
Guidobaldo I, who was heirless, called Francesco Maria at his court, and named him as heir of the Duchy of Urbino in 1504, this through the intercession of Julius II.
The Duke of Urbino, Duke Guidobaldo II, honoured him with the title Marchese del Monte so the family had only become a noble one in the generation before Guidobaldo.
Guidobaldo and when
Guidobaldo had hoped to have the Jews and conversos of Turkey select Pesaro as a commercial center ; when that did not happen, he expelled the New Christians from Pesaro and other districts in 1558 ( ib.
Guidobaldo and had
In fact Guidobaldo may have known Tasso before they studied at Padua together, for Tasso was almost exactly the same age as Guidobaldo and had been educated at the court of the Duke of Urbino, with the duke's son, from 1556.
Guidobaldo and mathematics
After serving in the army, Guidobaldo returned to his estate of Montebaroccio in the Marche, where he was able to spend his time doing research into mathematics, mechanics, astronomy and optics.
Guidobaldo and at
Those who escaped the Inquisition were received at Pesaro by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.
Simple local wares were being made in the 15th century at Urbino, but after 1520 the Della Rovere dukes, Francesco Maria I della Rovere and his successor Guidobaldo II, encouraged the industry, which exported wares throughout Italy, first in a manner called istoriato using engravings after Mannerist painters, then in a style of light arabesques and grottesche after the manner of Raphael's stanze at the Vatican.
Guidobaldo wrote an influential book about perspective, titled Perspectivae Libri VI, published at Pisa in 1600.
Guidobaldo and Giovanni
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro and Giovanni Maria da Varano returned to Urbino and Camerino, and Fossombrone revolted.
Guidobaldo and de
Guidobaldo and son
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.
He served various noblemen then, among them duke Guidobaldo II, in whose court his son Torquato was educated.
Guidobaldo and I
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro adopted Francesco Maria I della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II.
Guidobaldo and .
It drew on many authors, both classical writers and moderns such as Guidobaldo del Monte and Marin Mersenne.
In 1502, Cesare Borgia, with the connivance of his Papal father, Alexander VI, dispossessed Duke Guidobaldo and Elisabetta Gonzaga.
Guidobaldo then served as a soldier in the ensuing conflict in Hungary between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
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