Caterina Pico
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Caterina Pico (della Mirandola) (1454 - 5 December 1501) was an Italian noblewoman.
Life[]
She was born in Mirandola, the eldest of the seven children of Gianfrancesco I Pico (1415-1467), lord of Mirandola and Concordia and of , daughter of and cousin of the poet and writer Matteo Maria Boiardo. Her most notable sibling was the humanist and philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
She married Carpi, with whom she had three children:
, lord of- Caterina, nun
- Lionello (?-1535)
- Alberto (1475-1531), successor
She was widowed in 1480 and remarried in 1484 to Rodolfo Gonzaga (died 1495). He was killed at the battle of Fornovo. She inherited the fiefdom of Luzzara, which on her death passed to . She died in Luzzara.
Categories:
- 1454 births
- 1501 deaths
- House of Gonzaga
- Italian nobility
- People from Mirandola
- Italian nobility stubs