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    Giovanni Francesco Commendone (17 March 1523 – 26 December 1584) was an Italian cardinal and papal nuncio. Commendone was born at Venice. After an education...
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  • the "Sarmatian Athens", 1562–66. During this period cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone succeeded in persuading John II Sigismund to implement the Edict...
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  • participated to the life of the university. Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone proposed Giovanni Ingegneri as new bishop of Capodistria after the resignation...
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    crumbling and whose walls had been shored up, to Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone. Commendone had the palace restored by Annibale Lippi, who had assessed...
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    heir. In January 1565, Sigismund complained to papal nuncio Giovanni Francesco Commendone that marriage to Catherine was sinful because she was a sister...
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    hair of the Polish nobility were also explicitly described by Giovanni Francesco Commendone who wrote that "some Poles have their heads shaved, others have...
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    unable to keep standing without a cane when greeting Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone. During spring of 1572, Sigismund Augustus became feverish....
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    1536) Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni (15 May 1565 – 12 April 1570) Prospero Santacroce (12 April 1570 – 5 May 1575 Giovanni Francesco Commendone (5 July...
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    been debated by contemporaries and historians. Secretary of Giovanni Francesco Commendone claimed that her illness was caused by her use of contraceptive...
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    Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528) December 26 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1523) date unknown Elena Anguissola...
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    – Helena Magenbuch, German pharmacist (d. 1597) March 17 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584) March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard...
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    1565-66 that elected Pope Pius V. Together with Cardinals Giovanni Ricci, Giovanni Francesco Commendone, and Marcantonio Bobba, he was named by Pope Pius V...
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  • Prospero Santacroce (1581–1582) Zaccaria Delfino (1582–1583) Giovanni Francesco Commendone (1583–1584) Gugliemo Sirleto (1584–1585) Michele Bonelli (1585–1587)...
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  • Japan (d. 1242) 1473 – James IV of Scotland (d. 1513) 1523 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Catholic cardinal (d. 1584) 1537 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese...
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    Latin inscriptions on the triumphal arches were recorded by Giovanni Francesco Commendone, a Papal diplomat, and the French ambassador Noailles. Hanse...
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    French were also supported by an influential Papal legate, Giovanni Francesco Commendone. The Election Sejm convened on April 5, 1573, in the village...
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  • Bernardino Maffei (1549–1553) Giovanni Andrea Mercurio (1553–1560) Ludovico Simonetta (1561–1566) Giovanni Francesco Commendone (1566–1574) Vacant (1574–1580)...
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    Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, sometime papal nuncio to Urbino, Ferrara, Venice, Parma, and England....
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    Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528) December 26 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1523) date unknown Elena Anguissola...
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    Trifonio (received the title on 13 March 1566), † 20 June 1574 Giovanni Francesco Commendone, bishop of Zacynthus, nuncio in Poland – cardinal-deacon without...
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    Delfino, Bishop Emeritus of Gyôr (7 August 1578-19 December 1583) Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Poland (9 January 1584-14 May...
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    Verona's carroccio. Of them the commendatory abbot (1567-1577) Giovanni Francesco Commendone also had occasion to note bad behavior, who on the occasion...
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    Camillo Mentovato (1558-1560) Berardo Bongiovanni (1560–1563) Giovanni Francesco Commendone (September 1563-December 1565) Vincenzo Lauro (June 1, 1573...
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  • – Helena Magenbuch, German pharmacist (d. 1597) March 17 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584) March 21 – Kaspar Eberhard...
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    Capite on 8 February 1566. Together with Cardinals Giovanni Ricci, Giovanni Francesco Commendone, and Alessandro Sforza, was named by Pope Pius V inspector...
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  • death 1521) Ferdinando de Medici (1521.08.09 – death 1550) Giovanni Francesco Commendone (1555.10.25 – 1560), later papal diplomat: Apostolic Nuncio...
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    12, 1565) – Cardinal-Deacon of S. Trifonio; Bishop of Amiens Giovanni Francesco Commendone (March 12, 1565) – Cardinal-Deacon of S. Ciriaco alle Terme...
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    finding the right personnel. With assistance from papal nuncio Giovanni Francesco Commendone and Bishop of Warmia Stanislaus Hosius, Protasewicz persuaded...
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    Gianfrancesco Commendone (14 May 1584 - 26 December 1584). Agostino Valier (14 January 1585 - 1 June 1605)., appointed Bishop of Palestrina. Giovanni Delfino...
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    Grazie by Matteo di Giovanni (1470). The campanile (bell tower) was finished in 1402, and restored in 1911. Church of San Francesco. Situated in its homonymous...
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