Category:Tommaso dei Cavalieri

**Tommaso dei Cavalieri**
	Italian nobleman
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Date of birth	1509 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584); Rome
Date of death	1587; Rome
Occupation	collector; draughtsman;
Father	Mario de' Cavalieri;
Mother	Cassandra Bonaventura;
Child	Emilio de' Cavalieri; Mario de' Cavalieri;
Spouse	Lavinia della Valle;
Unmarried partner	Michelangelo (1532–);
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Tommaso Dei Cavalieri (1509–1587) was an Italian nobleman, who was the object of the greatest expression of Michelangelo's love. Cavalieri was 23 years old when Michelangelo met him in 1532, at the age of 57. The young nobleman was exceptionally handsome, and his appearance seems to have fit the artist's notions of ideal masculine beauty, for Michelangelo described him as "light of our century, paragon of all the world."[1] The two men remained lifelong friends, and Cavalieri was present at the artist's death.[2]