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Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (15 June 1618 – 29 June 1688) was an Italian nobleman and

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Bomarzo Bomarzo is a town and '' comune'' of the province of Viterbo ( Lazio, Central Italy), in the lower valley of the Tiber. It is located east-northeast of Viterbo and north-northwest of Rome. History The city's current name is a derivation o ...

Biography

Lante was the son of Marcantonio Lante (1566–1643) and his wife Lucrezia della Rovere. He was nephew to his father's brother, Cardinal

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. His brother, Lodovico Lante married Olimpia Cesi, daughter of

Federico Cesi Federico Angelo Cesi (; 26 February 1585 – 1 August 1630) was an Italian scientist, naturalist, and founder of the Accademia dei Lincei. On his father's death in 1630, he became briefly lord of Acquasparta. Biography Federico Cesi was ...

, Duke of Acquasparta. He purchased the Villa at Bagnaia and it became known as the

Villa Lante Villa Lante is a Mannerist garden of surprise in Bagnaia, Viterbo, central Italy, attributed to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. Villa Lante did not become so known until it passed to Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Duke of Bomarzo, in the 1 ...

. He made a number of significant improvements to the Villa and its gardens and commissioned Pietro da Cortona to paint the ''Allegory of War and Peace''. Many of Cortona's previous commissions had come from the

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family including Pope Urban VIII and Francesco Barberini. Lante later became close to Francesco's nephew,

Maffeo Barberini Pope Urban VIII ( la, Urbanus VIII; it, Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in July 1644. As po ...

( Prince of Palestrina) who spent some time in residence at the Villa Lante. Lante's plan had been to alter the villa with more baroque art and

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

to move the estate away from the defensive military style with which it had first been built. Some of his plan was accomplished but the buildings remain a mix of architectural types. He also owned the

Villa Lante al Gianicolo Villa Lante al Gianicolo is a villa in Rome on the Janiculum Hill (Gianicolo). It is a summer house designed by Giulio Romano in 1520-21 for Baldassare Turini, as one of Romano's first independent commissions after the death of his master Raph ...

in Rome. Lante died 29 June 1688 in that city.

Family

On 11 February 1688 he married Maria Cristina d'Altemps, daughter of Pietro d'Altemps (Duke of

Gallese Gallese is an Italian ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Viterbo, from Viterbo. It was taken by Duke Thrasimund II of Spoleto in 737 or 738, at which time it was essential to communications between Rome and Ravenna and had a large ...

and Marquis of Soriano) and (granddaughter of Giulio de' Medici). They had four children:Worldroots:
Lante * Antonio Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, (1648–1716) who inherited his father's titles and married ''Louise Angelique Charlotte de La Trémouille'', sister of

Marie Anne de La Trémoille Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...

. * Marcello Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (born 1652) *Luigi Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (born 1653) *Lavinia Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (born 1655) *Angela Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (born 1658)

References

1618 births 1688 deaths Nobility from Rome Montefeltro family Ippolito {{DEFAULTSORT:Della Rovere, Ippolito Lante Montefeltro