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
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Category Archives: Italian
Paris Lodron 1586-1653
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
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Leopold II Grand Duke of Tuscany 1797-1870
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
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Luigi Guglielmo Riedl 1832
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
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Polydore Vergil 1470-1555
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
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John Parricida, John of Swabia 1290-1310
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
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Philip III of Spain 1578-1621
Philip III was King of Spain. He was also, as Philip II, King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621.
Size 9.8 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Girolamo Caraffa 1564-1633
Girolamo Carafa (or Caraffa), Marquis of Montenegro (Abruzzo, 1564 – Genoa, 1633) was a general in Spanish and Imperial service from Italian descent. Girolamo was born in the noble Neapolitan Carafa family. His parents were Rainaldo Carafa and Portia Carracciola, daughter of the Duke of Sicignano.
Size 11 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1541-1587
Francesco I was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 until his death in 1587, a member of the House of Medici.
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Jakob Hannibal Graf von Hohenems 1530-1587
Jakob Hannibal I von Hohenems was the son of Wolf Dietrich von Hohenems and Clara de Medici. He spent parts of his youth in Northern Italy with his uncle Gian Giacomo Medici, Duke of Marignano and Marquis of Musso and Lecco. He pursued a military career. The election of another uncle, Giovanni Angelo Medici, as Pope Pius IV began a golden time for Jacob Hannibal I and the Hohenems people. In 1560 they were raised to the rank of count. In 1565 he married Hortensia Borromeo (1547–1578), the half-sister of Charles Borromeo, a cardinal and archbishop of Milan. Hortensia Borromeo was also a niece of Pope Pius IV.i.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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