Francesco Maria della Rovere
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...to aggrandize his kinsmen, the pope nevertheless decided to give Lorenzo the duchy of Urbino and formally invested him in its rights, after expelling on false pretenses its legitimate lord, Francesco Maria della Rovere. Francesco Maria, however, soon returned to Urbino, where he was welcomed by his subjects, and Lorenzo regained possession only by a protracted war, in which he was...
...made him duke of Urbino in 1474. Federico’s son Guidobaldo was the last ruling Montefeltro; dispossessed by Cesare Borgia in 1502, he recovered his state, but being without heirs adopted his nephew Francesco Maria della Rovere, into whose family Urbino then passed. His court, a notable centre of culture, is commemorated in Baldassare Castiglione’s Il cortegiano (1528).
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