Caterina Anguissola Trivulzio (Piacenza, 1508 circa – Castel Goffredo, December 13, 1550) was an Italian noblewoman.
Biography She was the daughter of Gian Giacomo Anguissola, of the line of Vigolzone, Count of Piacenza, and of Angela Radini Tedeschi.
Widow of Count Andrea Borgo (or Burgo) of Cremona (1467–1533), Count of Castelleone, in December 1540, she married Aloisio Gonzaga, Lord of Castel Goffredo. After his death in 1549, Caterina governed, through Giovanni Anguissola, the marquisate of Castel Goffredo, until the investiture of her son Alfonso in 1565. Her beauty was exalted by humanist Lodovico Domenichi in his work La Nobiltà delle Donne.Pompeo Litta, Famiglie celebri d'Italia. Gonzaga di Mantova, Torino, 1835.
She died in Castel Goffredo in 1550 and was buried in the mausoleum of the Gonzaga family in Chiesa di Santa Maria del Consorzio.Historian Carlo Gozzi (Raccolta di documenti per la storia patria od Effemeridi storiche patrie, vol. 1) states that she died in Mantua and was buried in the monastery of Santa Paola.
Issue Aloisio and Caterina had three children:
Alfonso (1541–1592), second Marquis of Castel Goffredo; Ferrante (1544–1586), first Marquis of Castiglione; Orazio (1545–1587), Marquis of Solferino.
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