Montefeltro

British  

/ monteˈfeltro /

noun

1. an Italian noble family who ruled Urbino from the 13th to the 16th century. Federigo Montefeltro , duke of Urbino (1422–82), was a noted patron of the arts and military leader

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Example Sentences

Influencers include the 45-foot-long Italian Renaissance room with a barrel vault built in the mid-15th century by Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and, to a lesser extent, the bookcase-lined refuge of British diarist Samuel Pepys, who died in 1703.

From Seattle Times

Jacob Soll claims that the young man is Guidobaldo da Montefeltro himself and remarks.

From Literature

The first revelation came, aptly, in Urbino’s Palazzo Ducale, the magnificent Renaissance palace constructed in the late 15th century by the humanist and warlord Federico da Montefeltro that now houses the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche.

From New York Times

Piero was among the beneficiaries of Montefeltro patronage, and he dedicated De prospectiva pingendi to the Duke.

From Scientific American

This book, too, is dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro.

From Scientific American