Biographies

Biographies

The protagonists of the siege of Florence and the historic battle of Gavinana

Malatesta Baglioni

Malatesta was born in Perugia in 1491...

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Alfonso II Todeschini Piccolomini, duca d’Amalfi

Alfonso was born in Naples...

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Alfonso d’Ávalos, marchese del Vasto

Alfonso was born in Ischia...

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Lorenzo Carnesecchi

Lorenzo was born on 30 November 1482...

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Gregorio Stendardi, detto “Goro”

Gregorio Stendardi, also known as Goro...

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Alessandro Vitelli

Born in Città di Castello in 1499...

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Ferrante Gonzaga

Ferrante was born in Mantua...

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Fabrizio Maramaldo

Fabrizio was born in Naples...

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Stefano Colonna

Stefano was probably born at the end of the...

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Marzio Colonna

Marzio was born of Ottaviano Colonna...

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Giampaolo Orsini

Giampaolo was born in the early sixteenth century...

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Amico Passamonti

Amico Passamonti was born in Arsoli...

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Charles V (Charles of Hapsburg)

Charles of Habsburg was the son of...

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Pope Clement VII (Giulio de’ Medici)

Biological and posthumous son...

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Francis I of Valois

Son of the Count of Angoulême and of Luisa di Savoia...

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Caterina de’ Medici

Caterina was the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo...

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Philibert de Chalon-Arlay, Prince d’Orange

Philibert de Chalon was the ruler of...

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Ercole II d’Este

The son of Duke Alfonso d’Este and of Lucrezia Borgia...

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

The life and especially the art of Michelangelo Buonarroti...

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Don Lope de Soria

Lope de Soria began his diplomatic career...

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Raffaello de’ Girolami

The scion of an ancient and wealthy Florentine dynasty...

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Silvestro Aldobrandini

A citizen of Florence...

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Alessandro de’ Medici

The origin of Alessandro de’ Medici is mysterious...

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