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	Villa Farnese Information
		The Villa Farnese, also known as Palazzo Farnese or Villa Caprarola, is a palace in the city of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Latium, Italy (approximately 35 miles north-west of Rome).
		The Villa Farnese was commissioned in 1559 by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese a grandson of Pope Paul III who was known for advancing the ambitions of his relations.
		Alessandro Farnese decided it would be politic to retire from The Vatican for a period.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Villa_Farnese (1147 words)

	Alessandro Farnese
		Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, general, statesman and diplomat, governor-general of the Netherlands under Philip II of Spain, was born at Rome on the 27th of August 1545, and died at the abbey of St. Waast, near Arras, on the 3rd of December 1592.
		He was the son of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Margaret of Austria, natural daughter of Charles V. He accompanied his mother to Brussels when she was appointed governor of the Netherlands, and in 1565 his marriage with the princess Maria of Portugal was celebrated in Brussels with great splendor.
		Alexander Farnese had been brought up in Spain with his cousin, the ill-fated Don Carlos, and his uncle Don John of Austria, both of whom were about the same age as himself, and after his marriage he took up his residence at once at the court of Madrid.
	www.nndb.com /people/213/000101907 (1346 words)

	Alessandro Farnese biography
		The power of the family dates from the time of Pope Alexander VI, who was the lover of Giulia Farnese and alienated many of the lands belonging to the holy see for her benefit.
		In 1534 Cardinal Alessandro Farnese was raised to the papal throne as Paul III (q.v.), and as his great aim was the aggrandizement of his family, he erected Parma and Piacenza into a duchy, which he bestowed on his natural son, PIETRO LUIGI.
		Alexander Farnese was one of the great generals of his age and, though severe in his discipline, was almost worshiped by his soldiery.
	www.dromo.info /Farnesebio.htm (346 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alessandro Farnese
		He was papal legate for the province of the Patrimony, and afterwards of the county of Avignon, where he displayed great administrative ability, especially during the plague of 1541.
		Farnese was employed by the popes on various legations and embassies.
		In 1539, he was legatus a latere of Paul III at the court of Charles V, to make peace between the emperor and the King of France, and to sever the alliance with England, also to arrange for a general council.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05788b.htm (543 words)

	Search Results for "Farnese"
		He was the son of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Margaret of Parma and thus a nephew...
		Soon after her marriage (1714), arranged by Cardinal Alberoni and the princesse des Ursins, she gained a strong...
		Farnese Bull, sculptured group representing Zethus and Amphion, sons of Antiope, tying Dirce (who had ill-treated their mother) to an enraged bull.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Farnese (193 words)

	Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma Information
		Pier Luigi Farnese in a portrait by Titian.
		Born in Rome, Pier Luigi was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (who later became Pope Paul III).
		Alessandro, bishop of Parma and Roman Catholic Cardinal
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Pier_Luigi_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma (393 words)

	Alessandro Farnese
		The young Alessandro Farnese, eldest son of Pier Luigi Farnese, first Duke of Parma and brother of Pope Paul III, was born 7 Oct, 1520, and died at Rome, Feb., 1589.
		While yet a student at Bologna, in 1634, Clement VII appointed him administrator of the Diocese of Parma; on 18 Dec. of the same year, his uncle, Paul III, created him Cardinal-Deacon of the Title of Sant' Angelo, and conferred on him numerous offices and benefices.
		He patronized the architect Vignolo, to whom he trusted the construction both of the church of Gesu in Rome, of which he laid the corner-stone 1568, and of the superb Farnese palace of Caprarola near Lago Bracciano.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/farnese,alessandro.html (508 words)

	Villa Farnese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Villa Farnese at Caprarola is sometimes incorrectly known as the Villa Caprarola.
		Since the Farnese was not gladly seen with Pauls successor Julius III., Alessandro considered it attached to withdraw itself for one while from the direct environment of the Vatikans.
		Alessandro Farnese died 1589 and left the possession to his relatives, the dukes of Parma.
	www.slotsch.de /english2/html/villa_farnese.html (677 words)

	An example of the della Rovere Lineage
		Consecrated 29 March 1644 at Rome, chapel of Saint Pius in the Vatican, by Antonio Cardinal Barberini, the elder, O.F.M.Cap., assisted by Celso Zani, Bishop emeritus of Città della Pieve, and by Giovanni Battista Scannaroli, Titular Bishop of Sidon.
		Antoniio Barberini the elder, O.F.M.Cap., Cardinal and Bishop of Senigallia, brother of Pope Urban VIII.
		Consecrated 28 August 1605 at Rome, Santa Maria in Vallicella, by Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini, Archbishop of Ravenna, assisted by Paolo Alberi, Archbishop emeritus of Ragusa, and by Metellus Bichi, Bishop of Sovana.
	mysite.verizon.net /res7gdmc/aposccs/id9.html (944 words)

	ansa.it - Turismo Lazio - DISCOVERED IN VITERBO: OIL PORTRAIT OF CLELIA FARNESE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Esposito s first inkling that the painting might be a portrait of an important member of the Farnese household was based on where it has been displayed for around five centuries: the main hall in the historic palazzo.
		Clelia, who was born in 1556 and died in Rome on 11 September 1613, was the daughter of Alessandro Farnese, Cardinal and nephew of Paul III Farnese, who for many years was rector of the Patrimony of St. Peter s in Tuscia.
		Cardinal Alessandro loved his daughter dearly, but this did not mean he prevented her from entering into an unhappy marriage when she was widowed, imprisoning her in the castle in Ronciglione after her refusal to remarry the young Marco Pio Savoia, Duke of Sassuolo, assassinated in 1598.
	www.ansa.it /turismolazio/notizie/notiziari/english/20060908180434044665.html (497 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alessandro Cardinal Farnese
		Alessandro Cardinal Farnese (5 October 1520–2 March 1589) was an Italian cardinal and diplomat, the grandson of Pope Paul III (who also bore the name Alessandro Farnese), and the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma who was murdered in 1547.
		On 18 December 1534 he was appointed Cardinal Deacon of the Title of Sant'Angelo by Paul III, and received many other offices and benefices, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, Governor of Tivoli, Archpriest of St.
		Among the buildings that Cardinal Farnese built or restored are the Church of the Gesù in Rome, the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the Farnese palace near Lake Bracciano, and the monastery Tre Fontane.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Alessandro_Cardinal_Farnese (320 words)

	Terms
		The Farnese family, noted for its statesmen and soldiers in the 14th and 15th centuries, became an Italian family of humanists and patrons of the arts from Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549; Pope Paul III from 1534) to his great-great-grandson Cardinal Odoardo Farnese (1573-1626).
		Cardinal Alessandro Farnese began the Palazzo Farnese in Rome in 1517.
		Alessandro’s great-nephew, Cardinal Odoardo Farnese (1573-1626), great-great-grandson of Pope Paul III, was responsible for employing Annibale Carracci, along with his brother Agostino, to fresco the Galleria Farnese that would house the collection of antique statuary in his residence, the Palazzo Farnese.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/ffolliott/arth344/terms.htm (4362 words)

	Farnese - Two Rare and Vast Fountains
		The fountains were erected by the Farnese family to add the final touch of distinction to their new palace.
		The Pope and the earlier cardinal, men of wide culture and enormous wealth, were the first to excavate and exploit the Baths of Caracalla.
		When the Pope, Paul III (Farnese), began the erection of the great new palace which was to bear his name and fitly domicile the princely family he was founding, he, and his descendants after him, used for its decoration the rare marbles and minor artistic trophies from the baths.
	www.garden-fountains.us /fountain_farnese_1.html (277 words)

	THE DOCUMENTS OF THE CARDINALS
		The size of these documents is often very large, because their purpose is to make public announcements of the indulgences and are sometimes fixed onto the doorways of the churches.
		They start with the name of the cardinal who is granting the indulgence; then there is the general address Universis Christifidelibus presentes litteras inspecturis (visuris et audituris) and the conventional greeting Salutem in Domino sempiternam.
		The cardinal’s seal, in spindle-shaped red wax (often protected by a tin capsule), is hung onto the envelope with a string of hemp.
	asv.vatican.va /en/dipl/doccardinals.htm (370 words)

	Popes
		Alessandro was the son of Pier Luigi Farnese and Giovannella Gaetani.
		In 1417 Ranuccio Farnese (the Elder), one of the most celebrated condottieri (mercenary soldiers) of his time, had been made a Roman senator by Pope Martin V. Ranuccio's son Pier Luigi, by marriage with the Gaetani heiress, solidified the Farnese position in the Roman nobility.
		Sensitive and talented, Alessandro Farnese was entrusted to the Humanist Pomponio Leto for his early education and then joined the Medici circle in Florence under Lorenzo the Magnificent.
	www.wga.hu /database/glossary/popes/paul3.html (1907 words)

	Palazzo Farnese H15a
		Construction was began in 1515 by Alessandro Farnese (future pope Paul III) and finished in 1589 by a second cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
		As a consequence of extinction of the Farnese dynasty into the Bourbons and access of Carlo di Borbone (1716-1788) to the throne of Naples (Carlo VII 1734-1759), Palazzo Farnese followed the destiny of the Neapolitan family starting from the 18th century.
		In 1936 Palazzo Farnese was purchased by the Italian State, which gave it immediately in rent of French Embassy for 99 years on the base of symbolic payment.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/H15a.htm (406 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Paul III
		Alessandro received the best education that his age could offer; first at Rome, where he had Pomponio Leto for a tutor; later at Florence in the palace of Lorenzo the Magnificent, where he formed his friendship with the future Leo X, six years his junior.
		In accordance with the abuses of his time, he accumulated a number of opulent benefices, and spent his immense revenue with a generosity which won for him the praises of artists and the affection of the Roman populace.
		It was as much for the purpose of securing the integrity of the papal dominions, as for the exaltation of his family, that Paul extorted from Charles and his reluctant cardinals the erection of Piacenza and Parma into a duchy for his son, Pier Luigi.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11579a.htm (1809 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Alessandro Farnese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Under Pope Clement VII he became cardinal bishop of Portus (Ostia) and dean of the sacred college, and on the death of Clement VII, in 1534, received election as pope.
		Paul III was in earnest in the matter of improving the ecclesiastical situation, and on June 2, 1536, he issued a bull convoking a general council to sit at Mantua in 1537.
		In consequence of a violent altercation on this account with Cardinal Farnese, the pope, at the age of eighty-one years, became so overwrought that an attack of sickness ensued from which he died, November 10, 1549.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/14/25116.htm (1288 words)

	Michelangelo in Rome - Farnese Palace
		Cardinal Alessandro Farnese had planned to erect the fmily palace, given to Antionio da Sangallo the Younger since 1513, on land acquired in 1495.
		The addition of the massive cornice, decorated with the Farnese lilies would be decisive - according to the plan presented in the spring of 1547, bitterly criticised by the followers of Sangallo - after the suitable corrections made adding to the faade, which a recent restoration has returned it to its ancient glory.
		In the courtyard, the influence of Michelangelo, who was replaced after the death of the pontiff by Vignola, can be seen in the refined frieze with garlands which completes the main floor and in the personal interpretation of the classic language of the upper floor, lined with Corinthian columns.
	www.ciaodarling.com /italy/lazio/farnese.htm (442 words)

	The Farnese Hours Finn's Fine Books Facsimile Book Catalogue
		Alessandro descended in direct lineage from Pope Paul III and administered the priceless art collections of his family.
		Alessandro’s exquisite and demanding taste is also reflected in his prayer book for whose decorative apparatus he hired Croatian born Giulio Clovio (1498–1578), the most talented miniaturist of the Italian Renaissance.
		A further fascinating aspect of the Farnese Hours is its elaborate borders, framing the 37 decorated text pages with atmospheric landscapes, naturalistic still lives, impressive portraits and the best of grotesque motives.
	www.finns-books.com /farnese.htm (365 words)

	Alessandro Cardinal Farnese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alessandro Cardinal Farnese (5 October 1520–2 March 1589) was an Italian cardinal and diplomat, the grandson of Pope Paul III (who also bore the name Alessandro Farnese), and the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma who was murdered in 1547.
		On 18 December 1534 he was appointed Cardinal Deacon of the Title of Sant'Angelo by Paul III, and received many other offices and benefices, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, Governor of Tivoli, Archpriest of St.
		Among the works Farnese built or restored are the Church of the Gesù in Rome, Caprarola, the Farnese palace near Lago Bracciano, and the monastery Tre Fontane.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alessandro_Cardinal_Farnese (312 words)

	Pope Paul III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Alessandro Farnese in Canino, Latium, Italy, the peculiar day of February 29, he was descended through his mother from the Caetani family, which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303).
		Under Pope Clement VII (1523–34) he became Cardinal Bishop of Portus (Ostia) and dean of the College of Cardinals, and on the death of Clement VII in 1534, was elected as Pope Paul III.
		Paul III was in earnest in the matter of improving the ecclesiastical situation, and on June 2, 1536, he issued a papal bull convoking a general council to sit at Mantua in 1537.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Paul_III (1404 words)

	Eva Siroka: Popes, Cardinals, and Women
		When Alessandro was twenty-four-years old, his miniaturist Giulio Clovio provided Titian with a sketch of his mistress, the courtesan Angela, whose lovely face was immortalized in the Venetian master’s reclining nude, kept in the cardinal’s private quarters for most of his life.
		And Cardinal Farnese, protected by his grandfather, and unlimited wealth, could not only buy many courtesans’ favors, but stop the wagging fingers over breaking every code of honor imposed on him as the second-in-command after the pope.
		That His Most Reverend Excellency, Cardinal Farnese, actually lived, adds a deeper dimension to what is already a stunningly rich tapestry of everyday life in Michelangelo’s Rome.
	www.evasiroka.com /blog/archives/2006/09/popes_cardinals.html (390 words)

	"Maddalena" - A Renaissance Love Story - Popes, Cardinals and Women
		When Alessandro was twenty-four-years old, his miniaturist Giulio Clovio provided Titian with a sketch of his mistress, the courtesan Angela, whose lovely face was immortalized in the Venetian master’s reclining nude, kept in the cardinal’s private quarters for most of his life.
		And Cardinal Farnese, protected by his grandfather, and unlimited wealth, could not only buy many courtesans’ favors, but stop the wagging fingers over breaking every code of honor imposed on him as the second-in-command after the Pope.
		Inspired by Titian’s nude Penitent Magdalen, which once belonged to Alessandro’s historical brother-in law, the plot is replete with religious issues: the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant revolt in the Low Countries, St. Bartholomaeus night's massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, and the huge Christian naval victory over the Moslems at Lepanto.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/3/emw363279.htm (952 words)

	29 Feb in History
		Although Alessandro Farnese was appointed bishop successively of Montefiascone (1499) and of Parma (28 Mar 1509), he did not become an ordained priest until June 1519 and he was ordained a bishop on 02 July 1519 after being appointed bishop of Frascati (15 Jun 1519).
		On 1509 Pope Julius II conferred on Cardinal Alessandro Farnese the bishopric of Parma.
		The Farnese cardinal's diplomatic skills made him an invaluable aid to the five pontiffs in whose election he participated, Pius III, Julius II, Leo X, Adrian VI, and Clement VII, before he himself was elected Pope on 13 October 1534.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4feb/h4feb29.html (7957 words)

	Palazzo Farnese, Rome
		The effect of the Palazzo Farnese is enhanced by the fact that it can be viewed across an open square.
		In this palace, the handsomest of all the 16th century Roman palaces, Renaissance architecture, which had begun in Rome with the Palazzo Venezia, reached its magnificent culmination.
		Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, later Pope Paul III (1534-49), commissioned Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1514 to build the palace.
	www.planetware.com /rome/palazzo-farnese-i-la-rpf.htm (344 words)

	Façade of the Farnese Palace by MICHELANGELO di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
		Façade of the Farnese Palace by MICHELANGELO di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
		Elected to the Papacy, Alessandro announced a contest for the cornice design, which Michelangelo won; whereupon he was left to finish the building.
		The master changed the character of the edifice completely by adding an impressive cornice with Farnese lilies and a superstructure to the uppermost storey, and by emphasizing the centre storey with a noble window and balcony, surmounted by the family escutcheon.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/m/michelan/5archite/late/2farnese.html (273 words)

	Bodenheimer Gallery - Farnese Football
		The two sides of the football are painted with images of the Farnese Hercules, a statue attributed to the Greek sculptor Lysippos in the 4th century B.C.E. A marble copy of the original lost bronze statue, was excavated from the ruined Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546.
		Thirteen centuries later, the Farnese Hercules was rediscovered in another militaristic and imperialist age, the Counter Reformation.
		It was Alessandro who negotiated an alliance of the Papal armies those of with Holy Roman Charles V to wage war against the Protestants.
	www.bodenheimer.com /qt040farnesefootball.htm (1693 words)

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