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    redesigned beginning around 1459. It was the birthplace of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, in whose employ Alberti served. Pius II wanted to use...
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    there the imperial troops under Archduke Leopold William and Ottavio Piccolomini were encamped in Fritzlar. No battle took place. But the soldiers used...
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  • Relief of Thionville 7 June - Imperial and Spanish forces under Ottavio Piccolomini defeat the French siege army of the Marquis de Feuquieres and lift the...
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  • Arghun Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (d. 1291) October 10 – Joachim Piccolomini, Italian altar server (d. 1305) October 20 – Bolko I, Polish co-ruler...
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    8°, 256 p. ill.; Éric Mension-Rigau, Les Rohan, Histoire d'une grande famille, Perrin, 2017, 320 p., read online; Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice, Mémoires pour...
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    – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509) March 12 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (b. 1508) April 24 – John...
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    – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509) March 12 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (b. 1508) April 24 – John...
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