This paper intends to show how Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, used the iconographic theme of the Trojan War in 1536-1538 to convince, in different ways, emperor Charles V to definitely attribute the Montferrat to the Gonzaga family. The "Sala di Troia" in the Ducal Palace, painted by Giulio Romano and helps, developing a pro-Greek point of view, may be a far more polysemic space than historians of art and literature have demonstrated.
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