Caterina Anguissola Trivulzio (

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

, 1508 circa –

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, December 13, 1550) was an Italian noblewoman. Portrait_of_Caterina_Anguissola

Biography

She was the daughter of Gian Giacomo Anguissola, of the line of

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, Count of

, and of Angela Radini Tedeschi. Widow of Count Andrea Borgo (or Burgo) of

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(1467-1533), Count of

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, in December 1540, she married

Aloisio Gonzaga Aloisio Gonzaga (20 April 1494, Luzzara - 19 July 1549, Castel Goffredo) was an Italian condottiero. Early life Usually known as Aloisio, other sources call him Aluigi, Loysio, Luigi or Luigi Alessandro. He was the sixth son of another condo ...

, Lord of

. After his death in 1549, Caterina governed, through Giovanni Anguissola, the marquisate of Castel Goffredo, until the investiture of her son Alfonso in 1565. Her beauty was exalted by humanist

Lodovico Domenichi Lodovico Domenichi (1515–1564) was an Italian translator. Biography Lodovico Domenichi was born in Piacenza (Italy) in 1515. After studying Law at the University of Padua, he pursued a literary career. He lived in Piacenza, Venice and Florence ...

in his work ''La Nobiltà delle Donne''. She died in Castel Goffredo in 1550 and was buried in the mausoleum of the Gonzaga family in Chiesa di Santa Maria del Consorzio.Historian Carlo Gozzi (''Raccolta di documenti per la storia patria od Effemeridi storiche patrie'', vol. 1) states that she died in Mantua and was buried in the monastery of Santa Paola.

Issue

Aloisio and Caterina had three children: * Alfonso (1541 – 1592), second Marquis of

; * Ferrante (1544 – 1586), first Marquis of Castiglione; * Orazio (1545– 1587), Marquis of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anguissola, Caterina 1508 births 1550 deaths People from Piacenza