Italian family, originating in upper Lazio, who held the duchy of Parma 1545-1731. Among the family's most notable members were Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549), who became Pope Paul III in 1534...
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A wealthy and powerful family in renaissance Rome. They acquired a collection of antiquities to rival that of the church and the state.
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The Farnese were an illustrious Italian family of Italy, whose descent may be traced from about the middle of the 13th century, and which gave to the church and the Republic of Florence many eminent names. The line became extinct with Antonio Farnese in 1731. The name of the Farnese is associated with several famous buildings and works of art. The ...
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Italian family, originating in upper Lazio, who held the duchy of Parma 1545–1731. Among the family's most notable members were Alessandro Farnese (1468–1549), who became Pope Paul III in 1534 and granted his duchy to his illegitimate son Pier Luigi (1503–1547); and Elizabeth (1692–1766), niece of the last Farnese duke, ...
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