FARNESE, ALESSANDRO

älĕs-sänˈdrō, 1545–92, duke of Parma and Piacenza (1586–92), general and diplomat in the service of Philip II of Spain. He was the son of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Margaret of Parma and thus a nephew of Philip II and of John of Austria, under whom he distinguished himself at the battle of Lepanto (1571). In 1577, Farnese joined John in the Low Countries to fight the rebels against Spain. Appointed (1578) governor of the Netherlands, he took Tournai, Maastricht, Breda, Bruges, Ghent, and Antwerp from the rebels and secured continued possession of the southern part of the Netherlands for Spain (see Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish). In 1590 he was sent to France at the head of a Spanish army to assist the Catholic League against Henry IV of France. He relieved the siege of Paris (1590) and the siege of Rouen (1592), but was wounded soon afterward and retired to Arras, where he died. Farnese showed exceptional skill in military art and diplomacy.

See R. Solari, The House of Farnese (1968).

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Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice: Remodelling Antiquity
Book by Thomas Martin; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Busts, Renaissance--Italy--Venice, Classicism In Art--Italy--Venice, Vittoria, Alessandro--1524-1608--Criticism And Interpretation
...Cosimo took their inspiration from the Farnese Caracalla , one of the most copied...In the opening pages of his life of Alessandro Vittoria, Tommaso Temanza addresses...Corner asked the local antiquarian Alessandro Bassano, il Giovane to advise the project...
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Connoisseurs and Secret Agents in Eighteenth Century Rome
Book by Lesley Lewis; Chatto & Windus, 1961
Subjects: Albani, Alessandro--1692-1779, Jacobites
...21 II Alessandro Albani and Philip von Stosch...Plate Page 1CARDINAL ALESSANDRO ALBANI 48 Engraving reproduced by...acquainted in Rome with Cardinal Alessandro Albani, well known as an expert and...
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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America
Book by John A. Wagner; Oryx Press, 1999
Subjects: America--Discovery And Exploration--English--Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1517-1648--Encyclopedias, Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Encyclopedias, Ireland--History--1558-1603--Encyclopedias
...Earl of Leicester Farnese, Alessandro, Duke of Parma foreign...Earl of Leicester Farnese, Alessandro, Duke of Parma Habsburg...Drake, Sir Francis Farnese, Alessandro, Duke of Parma foreign...
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Jacopo Sadoleto, 1477-1547: Humanist and Reformer
Book by Richard M. Douglas; Harvard University Press, 1959
Subjects: Sadoleto, Jacopo--1477-1547
...Cancelleria with four frescoes honoring the Farnese family and the ponticate of Paul III...Giorgio Vasari nella Corte di Cardinal Farnese." Atti e memorie delle RR. deputazione...der Spatrenaissance in Rom. I. Die Sala Farnese in der Cancelleria," Monatshefte fur...
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Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700
Book by Gianvittorio Signorotto, Maria Antonietta Visceglia; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Catholic Church--Collegium Cardinalium--History, Christianity And Politics--Catholic Church--History, Papal Courts--History
...Robertson, Il Gran Cardinale. Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts , New Haven...del cardinalato nelleta di Alessandro VI. Persistenze e novita, in...Romans Giuliano Cesarini and Alessandro Farnese (the future Pope Paul III...
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Caprarola's Sala Della Cosmografia
Journal article by Mary Quinlan-Mcgrath; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance--Appreciation, Art, Renaissance--Appreciation
...is the horoscope of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 6 OMITTED...had great influence in making Alessandro Farnese a cardinal, and this would...among the stars of this vault. Alessandro Farnese amassed extraordinary wealth...
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La Corte Farnesiana Di Parma (1560-1570): Programmazione Artistica E Identita Culturale
Journal article by Katherine A. Mciver; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: La corte Farnesiana di Parma (1560-1570): programmazione artistica e identita culturale (Book)
...of Emperor Charles V. The ensuing years of turmoil ended when Ottavio Farnese, under the guidance of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, agreed to marry Charles Vs natural daughter, Margarita of Austria (1552); by 1559, the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza...
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Medici Funerary Monuments in the Duomo of Florence during the Fourteenth Century: A Prologue to "The Early Medici"
Journal article by John T. Paoletti; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Cemeteries--History, Memorial monuments--History, Sepulchral monuments--History
...recorded Giovannis name as "Giovanni di Alessandro." The remnants of this tomb are now in...use as a memorial monument to Pietro Farnese, ca. 1395, over the Porta del Campanile...patrimony during the sixteenth century. The Alessandro di Chiarissimo of the inscription must...
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Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati *
Journal article by Victoria Kirkham; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Aristocracy--Social aspects, Italy--16th century AD, Sculptors--Behavior
...not necessarily priests. Alessandro Farnese, the future Paul III, maintained...letter written by cardinal Alessandro Farnese in June, 1551, on behalf...Duchess of Urbino, Vittoria Farnese della Rovere. Alessandro asks Vittoria to intervene...
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From Venetian Visitor to Curial Humanist: The Development of Agostino Steuco's "Counter"-Reformation Thought
Journal article by Ronald K. Delph; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994
Subjects: Catholic Church in Italy--History, Counter-Reformation--Influence, Italy--16th century, Steuco, Agostino--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Venetian treatise to Alessandro Farnese just four years prior...encompassed the world. The Farnese palace, an already...Roman townhouse while Alessandro served as Cardinal...Steucos relationship with Alessandro Farnese, see Freudenberger...
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Titian at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 282, May 2003
Subjects: National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painting, Italian--Exhibitions, Painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions, Titian--Exhibitions
...pleases the pontiff. The other grandson, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, reflects, receding into the murk, on his brothers...Museo di Capodimonte) was painted for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, who looks such a mild innocent in Titians portrait...
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El Greco at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 284, May 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Evaluation, Art, Italian--Exhibitions, El Greco--Exhibitions, Italian art--Exhibitions, National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...the palace belonging to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the patron for whom Titian twenty-five...a buyers market. At the Palazzo Farnese he met Luis de Castilla, son of...who procured him a lodging in the Farnese Palace in Rome, and his row of...
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Hadrian's Hall: Charles Freeman Visits the Eternal City, and Finds the Castel Sant'Angelo, Home to Emperors and Popes, to Be the Clue to Unravelling Its Fabulously Rich and Complex History
Magazine article by Charles Freeman; History Today, Vol. 57, January 2007
Subjects: Castel Sant' Angelo--Design and construction, Castel Sant' Angelo--History, Hadrian, Emperor of Rome--History, Roman history, 753-510 BC--Analysis
...grandest apartments were those of Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III (r.1534-49). Paul...his library in the Castel, the Farnese coat of arms is placed between...of Alexander the Great--with Alessandro apparently linking himself to...
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Orchestration ... or Castration? the Controversial Decision to Uncover the Remains of the Famous 18th-Century Castrato Farinelli in Bologna May or May Not Prove Insightful for Music Historians ... While an Exhibition on Castrati in London Illuminates This Exclusive Profession for the Wider Public
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006
Subjects: Farinelli, Singers--Biography
...only known castrato to have made phonograph recordings was Alessandro Moreschi, the last surviving castrato of the Sistine Chapel...In 1737 Farinelli was summoned to Spain by Queen Elisabetta Farnese, who believed that his singing could cure the debilitating...


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Cartoons Go to War; World War I Horrors: Some of the Disturbing Propaganda Images Created by Cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (Left)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 26, 2008
...he had his famous illegitimate children Cesare and Lucrezia. A later mistress, Giulia Farnese, was the sister of Alessandro Farnese, wholater became Pope Paul III. He fathered at least seven, and possibly as many asten illegitimate children in...


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Farnese, Alessandro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FARNESE, ALESSANDRO ales-san dro farna za, 1545 92, duke...Spain. He was the son of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Margaret of Parma and thus a nephew...the battle of Lepanto (1571). In 1577, Farnese joined John in the Low Countries to fight...
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Parma, Alessandro Farnese, Duca Di
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARMA, ALESSANDRO FARNESE, DUCA DI see Farnese, Alessandro . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Farnese
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...supporters of the papacy. In 1534, Alessandro Farnese became pope as Paul III...Charles V . Ottavios brother, Alessandro Farnese, 1520 89, was a cardinal of...Ottavios son and successor was Alessandro Farnese , 1545 92, one of the great...
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Farnese Palace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Antonio da Sangallo (see under Sangallo ) for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul III). It was begun before 1514 and, after...Carracci and his pupils. After the extinction of the Farnese family it passed by inheritance to the king of Naples...
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Paul III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...PAUL III 1468 1549, pope (1534 49), a Roman named Alessandro Farnese; successor of Clement VII. He was created cardinal...popes interest in art was very great: he founded the Farnese Palace, had Michelangelo continue the decoration of...
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