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Details of his early life are sketchy, as is common for most composers of the time, but most likely he grew up in Mantua, and he mentions in a letter that he was originally from Verona. Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble. He fled the city in 1495 for unknown reasons, returning later that same year; in 1499Events July 22 Battle of Dornach The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I. July 28 First Battle of Lepanto The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Venetians. September 22 Treaty of Basel. Maximilian is forced to gran he murdered his wife when he discovered her in flagrante delicto but, unlike GesualdoCarlo Gesualdo ( March 8 1566 September 8, 1613) was an Italian nobleman, lutenist and composer. Gesualdo was born in Naples. He became notorious when in 1590 he murdered his first wife and her lover. He subsequently married Leonora d'Este and moved to Fe a hundred years later, he may have spared the man (the sources are contradictory on this detail). Curiously, he seems to have been pardoned again and again for his misdeeds, but he left Mantua again "without permission, and for despicable reasons," as stated in a letter from one of the GonzagaGonzaga is the name of an historical Italian family of rulers, for which, see below. Several Catholic educational institutions have been named after the early Jesuit St. Aloysius Gonzaga: Gonzaga College High School is a Jesuit high school in Washington, family, his employers. His skill as a composer probably endeared him to Isabella d'EsteOne of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance, Isabella d'Este ( 1474 1539) was a major cultural and political figure. She was daughter to Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Leonora of Naples, daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples and Isabel de Clare, one of the great patrons of the arts of the time; this connection may have assisted him in attaining pardons for his various murders and misdemeanors.
From 1502Events January 1 Rio de Janeiro discovered. in Russia, Ivan II the Great attacks Livonia without success. May 9 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the " New World". May 21 Portuguese discover island of St Helena. December 3 Tromboncino was employed by the even more infamous Lucrezia BorgiaThis article is about the historical person. Lucrezia Borgia is also the name Buffalo Bill gave to his gun. Lucrezia Borgia (or Lucrecia Borgia") ( April 14 or April 18, 1480 June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Span in Ferrara, where he wrote music for the famous intermediThe intermedio in Italian Renaissance music, is a kind of music which was performed between acts of a play. It was one of the important predecessors to opera (two of the others were monody and madrigal comedy). Intermedi were written and performed from th of her opulent court, and most significantly for her wedding to Alfonso d'Este . Sometime before 1521Events January 3 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. January 28 Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. March 6 Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. March 16 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. April 7 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. he moved to Venice, where he most likely spent the remainder of his life, seemingly in rather more placid circumstances.