Interlocutors

• ELISABETTA GONZAGA, wife of Guidobaldo di Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Aged 46.
• EMILIA PIA, friend and companion of the Duchess, and widow of the Duke’s half-brother. Aged about 30.
• MARGARITA GONZAGA, young niece and companion of the Duchess.
• COSTANZA FREGOSA, young half-niece of the Duke.
• FRANCESCO MARIA DELLA ROVERE, nephew and adopted heir of the Duke. Aged 17.
• Count LUDOVICO DA CANOSSA, a kinsman of the author, afterwards made Bishop of Bayeux. aged 31.
• FEDERICO FREGOSO, half-nephew of the Duke, afterwards made a cardinal. Aged 27.
• GIULIANO DE’ MEDICI, an exile from Florence, known at Urbino as “My lord Magnifico,” and afterwards made Duke of Nemours. Aged 29.
• BERNARDO DOVIZI, better known as BIBBIENA, an adherent of the Medici, afterwards made a cardinal. Aged 37.
• OTTAVIANO FREGOSO, elder brother of Costanza and Federico, afterwards Doge of Genoa.
• PIETRO BEMBO, a Venetian scholar and poet, afterwards made a cardinal. Aged 37.
• CESARE GONZAGA, a kinsman of the Duchess, and cousin as well as close friend of the author. Aged about 32.
• BERNARDO ACCOLTI, better known as the UNICO ARETINO, a courtier-poet and popular extemporizer. Aged about 42.
• Count GASPAR PALLAVICINO. Aged 21.
• GIANCRISTOFORO ROMANO, a sculptor, medallist, etc. Aged about 42.
• COLLO VINCENZO CALMETA, a courtier-poet.
• LUDOVICO PIO, a brave young soldier, and kinsman of Emilia Pia.
• SIGISMONDO MORELLO DA ORTONA, an elderly courtier.
• Fra SERAFINO, a jester.

Time: March 1507.

Place: The Palace of Urbino.

Reduced from Braun’s photograph (no. 40.605) of the portrait, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence, by Titian (1477-1576).