Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France. In 1617, he was killed at the behest of the King.
Artist/Engraver B. Moncornet.
Size 16 x 12 cms
Price 18.00
Ref:3623
Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.
Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3597
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:3596
Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the “arbiter of Italy” by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.
Artist/Engraver
Size 15 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3694
He was born on 8 February 1657, into the noble Falconieri family, son of Paolo Francesco and Vittoria del Bufalo. Pope Benedict XIII elevated him to the rank of cardinal of the title of Santa Maria della Scala in the consistory of 11 September 1724. He died on 26 January 1734 at the age of 77.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2865
Ferdinand was born in Florence, Tuscany, into the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the second son of Leopold, then Grand-Duke of Tuscany, and his wife, Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain. Being the Grand Duchy a secundogeniture, when his father was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke of Tuscany, officially taking the office on 22 July 1790.
Artist: Fietta
Date:1810
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2891
Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in May 1758
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2864
Born in Valentano, Ottavio was the second son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (eldest son of Pope Paul III) by his wife Gerolama Orsini. Ottavio’s brother was Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2872
Pope Clement XIV, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in September 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar in the College of Cardinals, having been a member of OFM Conventual.
Artist: Petreir
Date:
Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2890
Was a daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Maria Maddalena of Austria. A patron of the arts, she married Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria in 1646. They were the parents of Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2908