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| | Joseph Connors, "Alliance and Enmity in Roman Baroque Urbanism," Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, XXV, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | This was a private piazza, of which the family was "absoluto padrone." Between April and July 1610 the Grand Duke of Florence tried to ride on the coattails of the Borghese by extending his Palazzo di Firenze to the rear and over the neighboring block with its frontage on the new Piazza Borghese. |
 | | How strongly it was resisted is conveyed in the manuscript Diario of padre Francesco Guinigi (1606-80), the nobleman from Lucca who was general of the Congregation at the time of the move and one of the principal actors in the drama. |
 | | Paolo's son and heir, Francesco, was raised at the tables and lost 50,000 scudi to this habit, but still worse he never married, "o perche si conoscesse inhabile alla generatione per la poca complessione, che hebbe, o per altro..." Good matches were missed, for example with one of Mazarin's nieces. |
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