MARGARET OF PARMA

1522–86, Spanish regent of the Netherlands; illegitimate daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. She was married (1536) to Alessandro de' Medici (d. 1537) and (1538) to Ottavio Farnese, duke of Parma. Appointed Spanish governor of the Netherlands (1559), she was restricted in her authority by a council of state headed by Cardinal Granvelle. Charged with the difficult task of carrying out the religious policy of her half brother Philip II of Spain, she urged and finally secured the recall of the unpopular prelate. She subsequently showed favor to the national party, but after the outbreak of violence she turned against the popular leaders (Egmont, Hoorn, and William the Silent). In 1567 the duke of Alba arrived at Brussels to suppress the opposition by force. Margaret warned Philip II against harsh measures and resigned as regent, being unable to agree with Alba. She was a woman of great ability and firmness, and her resignation was generally regretted. Margaret's son was the noted general Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza.

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books on: Margaret of Parma  - 1739 results

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Margaret Fuller, a Biography
Book by Margaret Bell; Charles Boni, 1930
Subjects: Fiction, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850
...Cambridge, Massachusetts, niece of Margaret Fuller, for allowing me to use...wife about her. "What has become of Margarets letter, and what of her Deserted...quickly saw the potentialities of Margarets mind, and being sensitive, felt...
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The Life of Margaret Fuller
Book by Madeleine B. Stern; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850
THE LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER Margaret Fuller --from the...being "bright and ugly." THE LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER A Revised, Second Edition...Data Stern, Madeleine B. The life of Margaret Fuller / Madeleine B. Stern. -- A rev...
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Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller
Book by Joan Von Mehren; University of Massachusetts Press, 1994
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850
...Minerva and the Muse A LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER JOAN von MEHREN University...Minerva and the muse: a life of Margaret Fuller / by Joan von Mehren...was not the concomitant of one of Margarets most valuable qualities;" "a belief...
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In Quest of Love: The Life and Death of Margaret Fuller
Book by Faith Chipperfield; Coward-McCann, 1957
Subjects: Feminists--United States--Biography, Fiction, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850, Women Authors, American--19th Century--Biography
...QUEST OF LOVE The Life and Death of Margaret Fuller IN QUEST OF LOVE The Life and Death of Margaret Fuller FAITH CHIPPERFIELD...better known by her maiden name of Margaret Fuller. New York friends made...
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The Writings of Margaret Fuller: Selected and Edited by Mason Wade
Book by Mason Wade; The Viking Press, 1941
Subjects: Fiction
THE WRITINGS OF MARGARET FULLER By Mason Wade MARGARET FULLER: WHETSTONE OF GENIUS The Writings of MARGARET FULLER Selected and Edited by...together in the belief that the merit of Margaret Fullers work has been obscured by...
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journal articles on: Margaret of Parma  - 46 results

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Family Members and Political Allies: The Portrait Collection of Margaret of Austria
Journal article by Dagmar Eichberger, Lisa Beaven; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Portrait painting--Collections and collecting, Portraits--Collections and collecting
...106) In his petition of 1533, Vermeyen referred to three portraits of Charles Vs illegitimate daughter, the future Margaret of Parma, which had been requested by the regent. Two of these were intended as gifts for the pope and Charles V; the other...
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News from Negroponte: Politics, Popular Opinion, and Information Exchange in the First Decade of the Italian Press*
Journal article by Margaret Meserve; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Italian history--Media coverage, Press--Analysis, Press--History
...Victor Louis. "Egriboz." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2:690-91. 2nd ed. Leiden, 1986-. Meserve, Margaret, Incunabula: The Printing Revolution...137-55; 8 (1907): 225-38. Stillwell, Margaret. The Beginning of the World of Books, 1450-1470. New York...
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La Ca' Di Dio Di Padova Nel Quattrocento: Riforma E Governo Di Un Ospedale per L'infanzia Abbandonata
Journal article by Margaret L. King; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, La Ca' di Dio di Padova nel Quattrocento: Riforma e governo di un ospedale per l'infanzia abbandonata (Book)--Book reviews
...Ospedale per Linfanzia Abbandonata. by Margaret L. King Francesco Bianchi. La Ca di...significant contribution to our understanding of the history of children, abandonment, and...about 200 at the Florentine Innocenti or in Parma and on to 800-1,000 at Bergamo, which collected...
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The X-Folios: Pulci and the Occult
Journal article by Margaret A. Galluci; Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2000
Subjects: Authors, Italian--Criticism and interpretation, Demonology--15th century AD, Demons--15th century AD, Italian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Italian writers--Criticism and interpretation, Kramer, Heinrich--Criticism and interpretation, Malleus Maleficarum (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Morgante (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Occultism--Social aspects, Pulci, Luigi--Criticism and interpretation, Sprenger, James--Criticism and interpretation, Witchcraft--Social aspects
...Robert H. Brown. Amherst: UMass Press, 1995. Cellini, Benvenuto. La Vita. Ed. Lorenzo Bellotto. Parma: Bembo/Guanda, 1996. Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary of Angels, including the Fallen Angels. 2nd ed. 1967; New York: Free Press, 1968. de Givry, Grillot...
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The Farnese Circular Courtyard at Caprarola: God, Geopolitics, Genealogy, and Gender
Journal article by Loren Partridge; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic--16th century, Architecture, Italian--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...located--and the duchy of Parma and Piacenza, dynastic...role in saving the duchy of Parma and Piacenza for his brother...with those of his mother, Margaret of Austria, and on the right...inherited the duchy of Parma at his fathers death and...
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magazine articles on: Margaret of Parma  - 8 results

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Wharton's Sharp Eye - Our Author, One of Britain's Great Novelists and Literary Biographers, Explores Edith Wharton's Short Stories
Magazine article by Margaret Drabble; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, July 2001
Subjects: Short stories--Authorship, Wharton, Edith--Authorship
...There are honorable echoes here of the young Fabrice del Dongos adventures at Waterloo in Stendhals The Charterhouse of Parma.) All this is so well done that it seems a pity that Wharton allowed a sentimental and supernatural conclusion. Troys much...
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What If ... Philip II Had Gone to the Netherlands? Geoffrey Parker Considers the Far-Reaching Consequences of a Sudden Change of Plan by the King of Spain in 1567
Magazine article by Geoffrey Parker; History Today, Vol. 54, August 2004
Subjects: Netherlands--Military aspects, Revolutions--16th century AD, Revolutions--17th century AD, War--16th century AD, War--17th century AD, War--Religious aspects, Wars--16th century AD, Wars--17th century AD, Wars--Religious aspects
...Spain leaving his half sister, Margaret of Parma, as his regent. As time passed...numbered less than a thousand, Margaret of Parma assured the king that almost...to share civil authority with Margaret of Parma. Despite the fact that at the...
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The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp
Magazine article by Gordon Marsden; History Today, Vol. 46, July 1996
Subjects: Antwerp, Belgium--Galleries and museums
...Plantins offices in March that year -- together with the handwritten denial sent by Plantin to Philip IIs Regent, Margaret of Parma, of having printed it. The affair led Plantin to take a judicious eighteen-month sabbatical in Paris -- when he came...
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Embedding Trollope
Magazine article by Phyllis Rose; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Summer 2003
Subjects: War correspondents, Wolfowitz, Paul D.
...for another three years! It was a long way to Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, and Condoleezza Rice. Fantasies about what female...naive, to characterize power over the external circumstances of life as trivial. To consider the Holocaust, the firebombing...
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Goodbye to All That: The Decline of the Coverage of Books Isn't New, Benign, or Necessary
Magazine article by Steve Wasserman; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 46, September 2007
Subjects: Books--Properties, Books--Social aspects
...her writings, translated by the excellent Margaret Sayers Peden, and published under the imprimatur of Penguin Classics, ought to be treated as news...translation of Stendhals The Charterhouse of Parma by Richard Howard, Americas most gifted living...
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newspaper articles on: Margaret of Parma  - 16 results

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Pascal Can't Say Goodbye to Roma; Pascal Fulgenzi, Owner of Newcastle's Oldest Surviving Italian Restaurant, Talks to Jane Hall about His Initial Difficulties Sourcing Authentic Ingredients, His Love of Food and Why He Will Never Retire. Taste OF THE NORTH EAST
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 4, 2008
Subjects: Food industry, Restaurants
...He has no plans to retire to spend more time with his wife Margaret, 64, and three grown-up children. It is not that he wouldnt...the past 37 years trying to find someone he believes worthy of taking over his mantle. With a few notable exceptions, he is...
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How to Count the Calories on Holiday
Newspaper article by Margaret Mallon; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 29, 1998
...Count the Calories on Holiday. by Margaret Mallon Whether youre staying at...enjoy the local food without bursting out of your bikini. Just keep our around-the-world...pasta soup: 225 calories. Melon with Parma ham: 150 calories. Calamari (squid...
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TRAVEL: MOLAR Expedition; Gobsmacked by Hungary's Dental Prices
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 26, 2008
...arranges a two-or three-night stay at a spa hotel on Margaret Island, in the centre of Budapest, and rates are around pounds 65 for a single...Emilia-Romagna region which includes the cultural cities of Parma, Bologna, Modena, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 14, 2007
...Alaska, Nicki Anderson of Middleton, Idaho, Aaron Grimes of Green River, Wyo., Kristen Files of Boise and Kara Grimes of Parma, Idaho; four siblings, Caryl Christensen and Barbara Bashan, both of Boise, Nancy Hochalter of Pocatello, Idaho, and Rebecca...
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Football: FERGIE'S GOT THE BABY BLUES
Newspaper article by David Leggat; The People (London, England), August 29, 1999
...when the baby is born and if Margaret goes into labour when we are...Rangers star to be at the centre of a baby birth clash with a big...same day as Rangers took on Parma in Italy were a week premature...part in the Ibrox club holding Parma to 1-0 last week to clinch a...
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encyclopedia articles on: Margaret of Parma  - 14 results

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Margaret of Parma
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MARGARET OF PARMA 1522 86, Spanish regent of the Netherlands...her resignation was generally regretted. Margarets son was the noted general Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza. ____________________ The...
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Hoorn, Philip De Montmorency, Count Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...member of the council of state during the regency of Margaret of Parma. In 1562 he joined with the count of Egmont and...Netherlands. When the duke of Alba replaced (1567) Margaret of Parma, he had Egmont and Hoorn arrested and, after an irregular...
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Philip II , King of Spain, Naples, and Sicily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish ). Philip appointed (1567) the duque de Alba to replace his half-sister, Margaret of Parma , as governor, but when Albas harsh methods failed to quell the revolt, Philip supported the more conciliatory tactics...
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Farnese, Alessandro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...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...
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Farnese
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...dominions to create the duchy of Parma and Piacenza for his illegitimate...he thereby gained the hatred of the nobility and was assassinated...who succeeded him, married Margaret of Austria (see Margaret of Parma ), illegitimate daughter of...
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