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Eleanor of Toledo (Spanish: Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel-Osorio, Italian: Eleonora di Toledo; 11 January 1522 – 17 December 1562) was a Spanish noblewoman who became Grand Duchess of Florence [a] as the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici.
Leonor de Médici (em italiano: Maria Eleonora de' Medici; Florença, 28 de fevereiro de 1567 [1] – Cavriana, 9 de setembro de 1611) foi uma nobre italiana, a primogênita do grão-duque Francisco I da Toscana e da arquiduquesa austríaca Joana de Habsburgo, filha do imperador Fernando I e de Ana da Boêmia e Hungria.
Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo or Leonor Álvarez de Toledo Osorio (March 1553 – 10 July 1576), [a] more often known as "Leonora" or "Dianora", [b] was the daughter of García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Duke of Fernandina.
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Eleanor, born Eleonora, was born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, on 28 February 1567, as the eldest child of Francesco I de' Medici and his first wife Archduchess Joanna. Her baptism took place the same year and was attended by Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte an adoptive nephew of Pope Julius III. Cardinal Spinello de' Benci performed the ceremon...
Wedding and Celebrations
Medici married Vincenzo I Gonzaga on 29 April 1584, as his second wife after he divorced Margherita Farnese. Celebrations for the signing of the marriage contract on 4 April 1584 took place in Mantua, including bells ringing and fireworks being set off. Eight days after the celebrations, the couple traveled to Florence to meet Eleanor's father Grand Duke Francesco and her stepmother Bianca Cappello. At this point Vincenzo kept a portrait of Eleanor by his bed. On 10 April, Francesco sent a le...
Duchess consort of Mantua
Eleanor initially had several portraits commissioned to be made of her deceased mother Joanna as well as her deceased siblings Anna and Filippo, but was unhappy with the length of time taken to paint the portraits. On 7 May 1586, Eleanor gave birth to her first child, a son named Francesco; during the pregnancy her father sent her a present of some plums. The following year, Eleanor's father-in-law Guglielmo died, Vincenzo becoming Duke of Mantua whilst Eleanor served as his Duchess consort....
Death and funeral
Eleanor fell ill in the first quarter of 1611 with a prolonged illness, but seemed to recover by April. She retired for two months to the Palazzo di Porto in Porto Mantovano, "one mile from the city and beautiful for its gardens and fresh water." With the arrival of hotter weather, Eleanor moved north to the hill-top fortified villa at Cavriana. There, on the day after the Feast of the Birth of the Virgin, her health rapidly declined and died on 9 September 1611, aged forty four. At the time...
Cornelison, Sally J. (2012). Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence. Ashgate Publishing.Carter, Tim; Goldthwaite, Richard A. (2013). Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. Harvard University Press.29 de jun. de 2024 · The magnificent portrait of Eleonora di Toledo together with her second son Giovanni is one of Bronzino's greatest masterpieces, and is the work that contributed to transmitting the splendour of Cosimo I de' Medici’s bride to the collective imaginary.
14 de mai. de 2023 · Eleonora di Toledo and the Invention of the Medici Court in Florence. Treasury of the Grand Dukes 7 February - 14 May 2023. The visit is included in the Pitti Palace entry ticket. More info.
Eleonora de Medici was born in Tuscany in 1591, the daughter of Christine of Lorraine (c. 1571–1637) and Ferdinand I de Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. She was betrothed to Philip III, king of Spain, but he reneged on the agreement, and it is said that she died of a broken heart.
