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Showing posts with label Pope Leo X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Leo X. Show all posts
4 August 2024

Lucrezia Maria Romola de’ Medici – noblewoman

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Daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent supported popes and poets Lucrezia de' Medici Lucrezia Maria Romola de’ Medici, who as a newborn bab...
6 February 2019

Girolamo Benivieni – poet

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Follower of Plato, Dante and Savonarola Girolamo Benivieni, pictured as an old man in a painting attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio T...
12 September 2018

Lorenzo II de’ Medici – Duke of Urbino

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Short rule of the grandson of Lorenzo Il Magnifico Lorenzo II de' Medici ruled Florence from 1513 to 1519 but died aged only 26 ...
3 August 2018

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger - Architect

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Talented Florentine was commissioned by the Popes The Church of Santa Maria de Loreto in Rome was Sangallo's first major commissio...
3 August 2017

Imperia Cognati - courtesan

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Prostitute who became a celebrity Raphael's Galatea in his frescoes at the Villa Farnesina in Rome is thought to be Imperia Im...
15 July 2017

Frances Xavier Cabrini – the first American saint

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Missionary who was directed to the US by the Pope Saint Frances was encouraged by the Pope to go to the United States to help Itali...
6 March 2017

Francesco Guicciardini - writer and diplomat

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Friend of Machiavelli among first to record history in context A portrait by an unknown artist of Francesco Guicciardini The histori...
11 December 2016

Pope Leo X

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Renaissance pope supported art but did not foresee the Reformation Pope Leo X, with cardinals Giulio de' Medici  and Luigi de Ross...