The jesuit Terenzio Alciati had been eventually chosen for the task by Pope Urban VIII. In early 1652, a few months after Alciati's death, Pallavicino...
47 KB (5,249 words) - 17:53, 7 December 2024
A crown-cardinal (Italian: cardinale della corona) was a cardinal protector of a Roman Catholic nation, nominated or funded by a Catholic monarch to serve...
31 KB (3,254 words) - 19:30, 25 October 2024
of symbols, Hieroglyphica (1556); popular emblem books such as Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber (1531) and Achille Bocchi's Symbolicarum quaestionum...
126 KB (13,493 words) - 11:03, 26 October 2024
1545) February 2 Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565) Francesco Alciati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1580) March 10 – Miyoshi Nagayoshi...
292 bytes (25,626 words) - 21:26, 16 November 2023