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The House of Farnese (/ f ɑːr ˈ n eɪ z i,-z eɪ /, also US: /-eɪ s i /, [1] [2] Italian: [farˈneːze,-eːse]) was an influential family in Renaissance Italy.The titles of Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Duke of Latera and Duke of Castro were held by various members of the family.
Giulia Farnese was born in Canino, then within the Papal States, to Pier Luigi I Farnese (c. 1435 - November 1487), Lord of Capodimonte, Musignano, Valentano, Gradoli, Piansano, Canino and Abbazia al Ponte, Papal Vicar of Canino in 1466, and his wife (Ischia, March 1464) Giovanna called Giovannella Caetani of the Dukes of Sermoneta, [4] [3] [4] [5] a member of the Caetani family which had ...
The coat of arms of Farnese Pope Paul III Detail of the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne by Annibale Carracci, the Farnese Gallery, 1595. The Virgin and The Unicorn, depicting Giulia Farnese by Domenichino, ca 1602. Palazzo Farnese ([paˈlattso farˈneːze,-eːse]) or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome ...
Originally a realm of the Farnese family after Pope Paul III made it a hereditary duchy for his son, Pier Luigi Farnese, it was ruled by the dynasty until 1731, when the last duke, Antonio Farnese, died without direct heirs. [1] [2] After a decade of Habsburg rule, the duchy passed to the House of Bourbon-Parma.
The history of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, a former state on the Italian Peninsula whose capital was the city of Parma, begins in 1545 and ends in 1860.. The duchy was established due to nepotism practiced by Pope Paul III and was initially governed by the Farnese family, to which the pontiff belonged.
The Cardinal Farnese did not attend his daughter's wedding, as he did not want to publicly confirm his paternity. [3] Clelia's dowry was settled in the amount of 30,000 gold scudi, paid in installments during the first three years of her marriage, which made it possible to improve the financial situation of the Cesarini family. [10]
Ultimately the planned building far overestimated the financial capacities of the duchy and of the Farnese family itself, being a far larger palace than those built by other Italian families and even French and Spanish royalty, and even though subsequent Farnese dukes tried to continue the construction, it was finally declared finished in 1602.
Farnese was born at the family castle at Valentano in Tuscany on 7 October 1520 (current province of Viterbo), the son of Pierluigi Farnese, who was the son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul III); and Girolama Orsini, daughter of Ludovico Orsini, seventh Conte di Pitigliano, and Giulia Conti. This family is originally Persian and among ...