Santi Simone e Giuda is a Renaissance architecture, Roman Catholic church located in Mantua, region of

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, Italy. The church rises near the Palazzo d'Arco and the Church of the Fillipines in Mantua.

History

A church at the site was likely present by the year 1000, but it was rebuilt in 1593, 1775, and finally in the first half of the 19th century. Initially it had its own parish, in 1805 it was suppressed and joined to that of Sant'Andrea. In this church on 20 May 1599, the music composer

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

wed Claudia Cattaneo. Inside the church is a memorial plaque, placed in 1914 by Douglas Crichton, recalling his Scottish ancestor James Crichton (1560-1582), known informally as ''The Admirable Crichton''. James Crichton was a young polymath, who was murdered in unusual circumstances at the age of 21 years by the jealous son of the Duke of Mantua,

Guglielmo Gonzaga Guglielmo Gonzaga (24 April 1538 – 14 August 1587) was Duke of Mantua from 1550 to 1587, and of Duke of Montferrat, Montferrat from 1574 to 1587. He was the second son of Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Margaret Palaeologina of Montferra ...

, Vincenzo. A guide from 1833 recalls a work by Borgani, depicting ''St Anselm blessing the church of St Paul del paese dei Due Castelli''.Viaggi in Italia, ovvero, descrizione geografica, storica, pittorica
Volume III, by Francesco Gandini; Presso Luigi de Micheli, Cremona (1833); page 507.

Bibliography

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