Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. He began his career as a vice-papal legate, and he held various diplomatic positions in the Holy See. He was ordained as a priest in 1634, and he became bishop of Nardo in 1635
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2388
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
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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
Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father’s abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three mainline kings of Sardinia
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:197
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