Editing Sofonisba Anguissola (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Sofonisba 1560.jpg|alt=|thumb|Self-portrait, {{Circa|1560}}]]
After the death of [[Elisabeth of Valois]] in 1568, Philip II took a special interest in Anguissola's future. He had wished to marry her to one of the nobles in the Spanish Court. In 1571, when she was approaching the age of 40, Anguissola entered an arranged marriage to a Sicilian nobleman chosen for her by the Spanish court.<ref name=":1" /> Philip II paid a dowry of 12,000 scudi for her marriage to [[:it:Fabrizio Moncada|Fabrizio Moncada Pignatelli]], son of the Prince of Paternò, Viceroy of [[Sicily]]. Fabrizio was said to be supportive of her painting. Anguissola and her husband left Spain with the king's permission, and are believed to have lived in Paternò (near Catania) from 1573 to 1579, though some recent scholarship has suggested that the couple remained in Spain.<ref name=":0" /> She received a royal pension of 100 ducats that enabled her to continue working and tutoring would-be painters. Her private fortune also supported her family and brother Asdrubale following Amilcare Anguissola's financial decline and death. In Paternò she painted and donated "La Madonna dell'Itria".

Anguissola's husband died in 1579 under mysterious circumstances.<ref name=":1" /> Two years later, while traveling to Cremona by sea, she fell in love with the ship's captain, sea merchant Orazio Lomellino.<ref name=":0" /> Against the wishes of her brother, they married in Pisa on 24 December 1584<ref name="Tanzi_Oxford"/><ref name=":1" /> and lived in Genoa until 1620. She had no children, but maintained cordial relationships with her nieces and her stepson, Giulio.