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financed the bloodiest wars of companies Cesare, Cesare Borgia, provided funds to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Piero de 'Medici and in 1502 founded the Banco Chigi in Rome with his father and his friend Francesco Tommasi. Organized lavish parties at the Vatican to amuse the potatoes and at that time began his work of patrons. He ordered the construction of a sumptuous villa on the right bank of the Tiber (now known as the Villa Farnesina, having spent later to be owned by the Farnese family), which soon became one of the most frequented by artists and potentates the time. Detail of the decoration of the Loggia di Psyche in the Villa Farnesina in Rome, Raphael's work in collaboration with other artists. Were related to Margherita Gonzaga, a lady belonging to one of the best families in Rome, but he met a woman of humble, Francesca Ordeaschi, which fell in love and with whom he was married.Marriage was a revolutionary himself officiated by Pope Leo X, the powerful banker (and one of the most influential men of his time) is betrothed to a woman whose fate would have been more likely to engage in prostitution. To celebrate this love, Agostino commissioned Raphael to paint the town loggia of the fable of Cupid and Psyche (extracted from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius). He died at 55. At his funeral attended by thousands of people. He is buried in Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo, in the chapel that bears his name, designed by Raphael.