Urbino - People From Urbino

People From Urbino

• Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, medieval condottiere and patron of the arts.
• Elisabetta Gonzaga Duchess of Urbino (1471–1526)
• Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, commissioned the famous Venus of Urbino painting.
• Donato Bramante was born nearby, and witnessed Laurana's work going up while he was a youth
• Raphael was born at Urbino, where his family's house is a museum-shrine
• Paolo Volponi (1924–1994), writer and poet
• Giovanni Francesco Albani, Pope Clement XI

Others notable people from Urbino include:

• Crispino Agostinucci -bishop of Montefeltro
• Federico Barocci, painter
• Bernardino Baldi, mathematician and writer
• Raffaello Carboni, writer.
• Bartolomeo Carusi, theologian and professor at Bologna and Paris
• Clorinda Corradi, lyrical singer (1804–1877)
• Federico Commandini (1509), mathematician
• Raphael Gualazzi, jazz pianist and singer, runner-up in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.
• Battista Malatesta (1384 - 1448), Renaissance poet.
• Ottaviano Petrucci, inventor of the music print with movable type, was born nearby
• Francesco Puccinotti (1794–1872), pathologist
• Umberto Piersanti, poet and writer
• Valentino Rossi, multiple MotoGP World Champion, was born nearby
• Giovanni Santi, painter and poet, father of Raphael, was born nearby
• Polydore Vergil or Virgil, chronicler in England
• Federico Zuccari and Taddeo Zuccari, painters, were born nearby