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    Giovanni Borromeo (Rome, December 15, 1898 – Rome, August 24, 1961) was an Italian physician. In 2004 Yad Vashem recognized him as a “Righteous among...
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    Borromeo were merchants in San Miniato around 1300 and became bankers in Milan after 1370. Vitaliano de' Vitaliani, who acquired the name of Borromeo...
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    Charles Borromeo (Italian: Carlo Borromeo; Latin: Carolus Borromeus; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and...
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    atop a basket, symbolizing his poverty. His rich but stingy uncle, Giovanni Borromeo, had previously denied his requests for money, but was so amused by...
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    finished secondary education, in 2004, at Milan's Liceo Classico Giovanni Berchet. Borromeo received a bachelor of laws from Bocconi University, Milan in...
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    Borromeo, was a close adviser. As pope, Pius IV initiated a number of building projects in Rome, including one to improve the water supply. Giovanni Angelo...
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    on the premises of the San Giovanni Calibita Church. Later, it was expanded into a modern hospital by Dr. Giovanni Borromeo, who joined in 1934, with the...
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  • The Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (Latin: Congregatio Missionariorum a S. Carolo), commonly called the Scalabrinian Missionaries...
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    accession of Carlo Borromeo to the archbishop's throne, all lay monuments were removed from the Duomo. These included the tombs of Giovanni, and Filippo Maria...
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    from his first voyage. In his letter of May 14, 1493, addressed to Giovanni Borromeo, he referred to Columbus as Ligurian, Liguria being the Region where...
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    arrest of his brother and his exile in Ferrara. Pietro Pusterla, Giovanni Borromeo, Antonio Marliani, and many others of the Ghibelline faction were...
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    Vitaliano Borromeo (3 March 1720 – 7 June 1793) was a Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal. Vitaliano was born in Milan, the third son of Giovanni Benedetto...
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    Borromean Islands (category House of Borromeo)
    majority of them (Isola Madre, Bella, San Giovanni) today. Isola Bella, named for Isabella, countess Borromeo, was originally a largely barren rock; after...
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    In 1707, she married count Giovanni Benedetto Borromeo Arese (1707–1744), and became the mother of eight children. Borromeo died in Milan on 23 August...
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  • [aɲˈɲɛlli]) is an Italian multi-industry business dynasty family founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the Fiat motor company which became...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Giovanni Battista Crespi. Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an...
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    Miniato and Florence in 1370, his wife and five children fled. Sons Borromeo and Giovanni went to Milan, where they founded a bank, while others went into...
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    Leg, Anonymous Miracle of young Giovanni Tirone by Procaccini Miracle of Marco Spagnolo by Giorgio Bonola Carlo Borromeo celebrates Synod by il Fiammenghino...
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    Palazzo Arese Borromeo is an historic noble palace situated in Cesano Maderno, in the Province of Monza and Brianze, Lombardy, Italy. The northern wing...
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    Federico Borromeo (Italian: [fedeˈriːko borroˈmɛːo]; 18 August 1564 – 21 September 1631) was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, a prominent...
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    da Carona and Giovanni Antonio Piatti, Funerary monument of Vitaliano and Giovanni Borromeo, between 1440 and 1478, Isola Bella, Borromeo Palace. Agostino...
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    Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus VI; Italian: Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista enˈriːko anˈtɔːnjo...
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    Giovanni Botero (c. 1544 – 1617) was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, author of Della Ragion di Stato (The Reason of State), in ten chapters...
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    Sancarlone (category Charles Borromeo)
    Carlo Borromeo is a massive copper statue by Giovanni Battista Crespi, erected between 1614 and 1698, near Arona, Italy. It represents Charles Borromeo, a...
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  • hidden by Bartali during the war. It also describes the heroism of Dr. Giovanni Borromeo, administrator of the Catholic Fatebenefratelli Hospital on Tiber...
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  • Piedmont and later named for the nearby city of Angera. He studied under Giovanni Borromeo, then the count of Arona. He went to Rome at the age of twenty and...
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    maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, and since 2004 has been leading the Agnelli family, an...
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    Archbishop of Benevento, and Giovanni Battista Scanaroli, Titular Bishop of Sidon, serving as co-consecrators. Miranda, Salvador. "BORROMEO, iuniore, Federico (1617-1673)"...
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    For the former Borromeo College in the United States see Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology#Borromeo College 45°10′49″N 9°9′40.7″E /...
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    Fabbretti, Giovanni Papini, Daniel-Rops, Michele Saponaro, and others. On 21 July 1950 he was appointed domestic prelate. After the rectorate in Borromeo, from...
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