Francesco Gonzaga
Italian cardinal
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association with Poliziano
- In Poliziano
…a new patron in Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga. It was for a court occasion that he wrote in Mantua Orfeo (1480; “Orpheus”), a short dramatic composition in the vernacular, based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and inspired by the same humanist ideal of beauty that pervades his Stanze. Orfeo…
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