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Showing posts with label Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Show all posts

28 February 2025

Luisa Sanfelice - executed aristocrat

'Heroine' may have been accidental revolutionary Gioacchino Toma's painting, Luisa Sanfelice in Prison, in the National Museum...

18 April 2018

Ippolita Maria Sforza – noble woman

Learned lady sacrificed happiness for a political alliance Ippolita Maria Sforza's marriage helped forge a strong link between Nap...

12 January 2018

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

Despotic ruler presided over chaos in southern Italy Ferdinand IV of Naples as a boy, painted by the German painter Anton Raphel Me...

6 June 2017

Maria Theresa - the last Holy Roman Empress

Italian noblewoman was first Empress of Austria Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, the last Hol...

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