Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the then 22-year-old Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by her two marriages.
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2920
Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War from scratch as a simple footsoldier, he rose through the ranks into a regiment holder and became an important cavalry commander in the late stages
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:862
Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2006
Fra Gregorio Carafa was a nobleman from the House of Carafa and the 61st Grand Master of the Order of Saint John, from 1680 to his death in 1690.
Size 14 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2278
Was the Prince-Archbishop of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1619-1653. He was born 13 February 1586 in the Castelnuovo di Noarna, in Nogaredo, Trentino. He was the son of Count Nicolò Lodron (1549-1621) (a scion of the branch of the noble Italian family Lodron from Trentino called the Vallagarina or Castelnuovo-Castellano line), an imperial colonel and governor of the County of Tyrol; and his wife Dorothea von Welsperg.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2836
Leopold II was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand.
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Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:594
Victor Amadeus II was the head of the House of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 12 June 1675 until his abdication in 1730. He was the first of his house to acquire a royal crown, ruling first as King of Sicily and then as King of Sardinia.
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Size 12.5 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:137
J.R. Consgliere di Commissione Aulica
Subject nationality: Italian
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Felice Luliani
Date:1832
Size 17.5 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2580
Polydore Vergil or Virgil, widely known as “Polydore Vergil of Urbino”, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1295
John Parricida or John the Parricide, also called John of Swabia, was the son of the Habsburg duke Rudolf II of Austria and Agnes, daughter of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2313