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Girolamo, also known as Santi Girolamo e Vitale is a Baroque Roman Catholic church in central Reggio Emilia, Italy. It is located on Via San Girolamo...

since the death of Filippo Maria Visconti, who had married Maria of Savoy. Persistent rumours, however, portrayed Girolamo as a natural son of the Pope....

Marco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida (1485? – September 27, 1566) was an Italian humanist, bishop and important poet in Christian Latin literature...

cousin Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and was meant as a reward to the noble and working classes, who had suffered under his tyrannical Visconti predecessor Barnabò...

task, and ceded the city back to the Visconti for a payment of 40,000 golden florins. Thus Filippo Maria Visconti made his signoria hereditary. Cremona...

real power lay with his mother Caterina Sforza. He was the oldest son of Girolamo Riario, a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV who had obtained possessions in Italy...

de' Medici who would gain the Duchy of Milan in 1450, and Bianca Maria Visconti. He married into the Gonzaga family; on the death of his first wife Dorotea...

Ascanio Maria Sforza Visconti (3 March 1455 – 28 May 1505) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Generally known as a skilled diplomat who played...

Girolamo, murdered in 1488 by conspirators of Forli). The rule of the Riarii, however, was brief, as Pope Alexander VI deprived the son of Girolamo,...

child and only daughter of Caterina Sforza by the latter's first husband, Girolamo Riario, a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. Bianca married twice; her first husband...

centuries, until they held the lordship of Milan before being ousted by the Visconti. The family originally sprang from the small fortified burgh of Primaluna...

His position as the fourth son of Francesco I Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti meant that he was not expected to become ruler of Milan, but his mother...

Giambattista Visconti, O.S.A. (died 11 May 1638) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Teramo (1609–1638). Giambattista Visconti was born in...

first lord of Mirandola, against Bernabò Visconti. War broke out between the Estensi (guelfs) and the Visconti (ghibellins), and the latter besieged Mirandola...

literature. In 1483 at the age of ten, Cecilia was betrothed to Stefano Visconti, but the betrothal was broken off in 1487 for unknown reasons. In May 1489...

Cavaliere Girolamo Zulian (1730 – 1795) was a Venetian nobleman, ambassador, patron of the arts, art collector and Senatore Amplissimo. A member of the...

the Florentine authorities because he was a relation of the conspirators Girolamo Riario, his mother's brother and the head of the plot, and the Archbishop...

worked on the completion of the fresco decorations in the Church of San Girolamo dei Croati in Rome. He continued his painting, often depicting mythological...

from 572 to 774, of the Kingdom of Italy from 774 to 1024 and seat of the Visconti court from 1365 to 1413. Pavia is the capital of the fertile province of...

footballer Giovanni Vinci (born 1990), Italian professional wrestler Giovanni Visconti (archbishop) (1290–1354), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal Aria Giovanni...