Giulia della Rovere

Giulia della Rovere (1531, Casteldurante – 4 April 1563, Ferrara) was an Italian noblewoman. A portrait of her by Titian survives in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.^{[citation needed]}

Life

Guilia was the daughter of Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino and Eleonora Gonzaga.^{[citation needed]} On 3 January 1549 she married Alfonso d'Este^[1], an illegitimate son of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and of Laura Dianti.^{[citation needed]} They had three children:^{[citation needed]}

• Cesare, Duke of Modena (8 October 1552 – 11 December 1628); married Virginia de' Medici^[2]
• Alfonsino (14 November 1560 – 4 September 1578), married his cousin Marfisa d'Este
• Eleonora (Ferrara, 1561–Naples, 1637); married the composer Carlo Gesualdo.