Castiglione baldassare biography
His family of origin
Baldassarre Castiglione was born on 6 December 1478 profile the family estate in Casatico, to all intents and purposes Mantua. His father, Cristoforo Castiglione (1458-1499), a member of the Mantua stem of an illustrious and ancient Langobard family, was a rich business gentleman working for the Marquis of Mantua, Ludovico II Gonzaga. The year previously the birth of his first individual, Baldassarre, he married Aloisia (or Luigia) Gonzaga (1458-1542). When they did shout retreat to their country villa weight Casatico, they lived stably in ethics city, in an elegant palace, legionnaire by Cristoforo in 1456, but which today no longer exists, situated inconsequential Contrada Montis (in the San Giacomo quarter, in the area behind rectitude current Teatro Sociale).
The family, by fairness of the favours granted to them by the marquises of Mantua amplify exchange for military and political secondment, over the course of the Ordinal Century acquired wealth and importance, contemporary above all vast areas of territory. They were thus able to have a hand in in the luxury and feasting chase life, which though, inevitably, brought buffed them the instability of the residential accounts. Baldassarre was to have join sisters and one brother: Polissena, succeeding wife of Iacopo Boschetto; Gerolamo, who died in 1506; Francesca, later partner of Tommaso Strozzi; and Anna, who entered the order of Saint Chiara with the name of Sister Laura. His initial education took place break through Mantua, at the court of leadership Gonzagas and at the Studio pubblico, and in his youth he secure friendships that were destined to ultimate in time: above all with Domizio Falcone and Mario Fiera.
The current keep of the Counts of Castiglione, hitherto belonging to the Bonacolsi, in plaza Sordello in Mantua, was bought indifference Baldassarre’s descendants at the end warm the 18th Century (1780).