with her niece Eleonora Gonzaga and without a penny, they found refuge in Ferrara, where Elisabetta died in 1526. Cultural references Elisabetta Gonzaga was immortalized by the writer Baldassare Castiglione, whose work of 1528, The Courtier, was based on his interactions and conversations with her. A portrait of her around the years 1504 to 1506 is attributed to the artist Raphael and is in the Uffizi gallery, Florence, Italy. References Further reading Sarah Bradford, Lucrezia Borgia, Milano, Mondadori, 2005. Maria Bellonci, Lucrèce Borgia (1991), David Englander,Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: An Anthology of Sources, Published by Blackwell Publishing, 1990 page 77 Paula Findlen, The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings, published by Blackwell Publishing, 2002, page 35 Marcia B. Hall, The Cambridge Companion to Raphael, published by Cambridge University Press, 2005, page 29 Baldassare Castiglione,The Book of the Courtier, Translated by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke, Published by Courier Dover Publications, 2003, Page 320 (note 12 to page 2) External links Project Continua: Biography of Elisabetta Gonzaga Project Continua is a web-based multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation of women's intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into the 21st Century. 1471 births 1526 deaths E Italian patrons of the arts Nobility of Mantua 15th-century Italian women 16th-century Italian nobility Duchesses of Urbino Italian salon-holders