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Showing posts with label Pope Benedict XIII. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pope Benedict XIII. Show all posts

21 May 2025

Cardinal Giulio Alberoni – statesman and gourmet

Priest loved power, wealth...and his local pasta As a diplomat, Cardinal Alberoni became the equivalent of prime minister of Spain Cardinal ...

29 October 2019

Carlo Emanuele Ruspoli – Duke of Morignano

Noble architect is now a prolific writer Carlo Emanuele Ruspoli became Duke of Morignano in 2003 Carlo Emanuele Maria Ruspoli was bo...

4 October 2018

Francesco Solimena - painter

Neapolitan artist who influenced a generation Francesco Solimena - a section from a self-portrait painted in around 1730 Francesco S...

31 March 2017

Pope Benedict XIV

Bologna cardinal seen as great intellectual leader Pierre Subleyras's portrait of Benedict XIV, painted in the early 1700s, is in...

4 August 2016

Pope Urban VII

Pope for just 12 days but introduced world's first smoking ban Pope Urban VII banned not only smoking but chewing tobacco and snuf...

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