Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
January 2019 NYINC Auction 11-12 Jan 2019
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Ferrante II Gonzaga was count of Guastalla (later duke) and head of the junior branch of the Gonzagas, whose senior head was duke of Mantua. His attempts to seize Mantua after the death of the duke there in 1627 set off the War of the Mantuan Succession between France and Austria, both already contestants in the Thirty Years War.
From the Collection of Dr. James Eustace Bizzell, II.
Estimate: $2000.00- $3000.00