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    Paolo Giovio (also spelled Paulo Jovio; Latin: Paulus Jovius; 19 April 1483 – 11 December 1552) was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate...
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  • Italian Roman Catholic bishop Paolo Giovio (1483–1552), Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate Paolo Giovio (il Giovane) (died 1585), Italian...
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  • Paolo Giovio il Giovane or Paolo Giovio the Younger (died 1585) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1560–1585). On...
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    assembled by the 16th-century Italian Renaissance historian and biographer Paolo Giovio. It includes portraits of literary figures, rulers, statesmen and other...
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  • Como at least 280 of the portraits from the Collection of Paolo Giovio known as the Giovio Series (484 in total). Most of them can be seen at the Uffizi...
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    two contemporary historians, Francesco Guicciardini and Paolo Giovio. Zimmerman notes Giovio's "disapproval of the pope's familiar banter with his chamberlains...
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    first half of the sixteenth century. Some, like Maciej Miechowita and Paolo Giovio, argued that the mountains were non-existent. Others, like the ambassadors...
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    of the name Balbiano is found in a document dated 941. The historian Paolo Giovio (1483–1552) wrote of the place where his family possessed magnificent...
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    and that he "often slept in his clothes and ... boots." His biographer Paolo Giovio says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were...
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    Fracastoro, trans. James Gardner, 2013 Notable Men and Women of Our Time, Paolo Giovio, ed. and trans. Kenneth Gouwens, 2013 On Exile, Francesco Filelfo, ed...
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    1911. Giovio, Paolo (1557). Domenichi, Lodovico (ed.). La vita del Signor Don Ferrando Davalo Marchese di Pescara, scritta per Mons. Paolo Giovio, Vescovo...
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  • Giulio Giovio (1511–1563) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1552–1563). Giulio Giovio was born in 1511. On 21 August...
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    Milan under Galleazzo Maria Sforza. University of California Press. Paolo Giovio, Vita di Muzio Attendolo Caterina Santoro, Gli Sforza, 1968 Litta Biumi...
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    64: "natus in Augusto fueras"); the date 9 August is first given by Paolo Giovio, but seems to be a misprint for his coronation date (9 April). The only...
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    Vienna, which Suleiman did not intend to face. According to historian Paolo Giovio, Charles arrived with an imperial army at Vienna on 23 September, too...
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    hendecasyllables a maiore suspect that it should be attributed to Bishop Paolo Giovio, and that it was composed when Aretino was still alive: Qui giace l'Aretin...
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    1546, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520–1589), at the suggestion of Paolo Giovio, commissions Vasari to paint a fresco a hall of the chancery in the Palazzo...
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    Yale University Press, 2006 Paolo II in Enciclopedia dei Papi", Enciclopedia Treccani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paolo-ii_%28Enciclopedia_dei_Papi%29/...
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    trials, a sort of primitive code of medical ethics. Humanist and author Paolo Giovio was his personal physician. Giulio de' Medici was a talented musician...
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    in a standing position, not lying on his back, as another biographer, Paolo Giovio, imagined. Vasari wrote: "These frescos were done with the greatest discomfort...
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  • detailed anatomical drawings with annotations. Both Giorgio Vasari and Paolo Giovio claim that della Torre had written anatomical texts, but none are known...
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    Medici figures. The decoration of the villa, conceived by historian Paolo Giovio, was intended to glorify the glory of the Medici dynasty through episodes...
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    anti-war faction. Three other portents of disaster were described by Paolo Giovio in 1549 and repeated in John Polemon's 1578 account of the battle. When...
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    Mustafa by Nicholas de Moffan; the historical chronicles on Turkey by Paolo Giovio; and the travel narrative by Luidgi Bassano — derived from hearsay. Hürrem...
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    18th-century portrait of Cortés based on the one sent by the conqueror to Paolo Giovio, which has served as a model for many of his representations since the...
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    ] — Camillo Porzio, La congiura de' baroni del Regno di Napoli etc. Paolo Giovio, who instead has very harsh words for Beatrice, describes him as follows:...
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    ISBN 978-0-8018-9145-8. Retrieved 23 September 2013. Paolo Giovio; Sauvage (1555). Le second tome des Histoires de Paolo Jovio. p. 543. Retrieved 20 September 2013...
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    made from life, was assembled by Renaissance historian and biographer Paolo Giovio (1483–1552) but was subsequently lost. It is represented today by the...
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    translations in Italian and Spanish. Rouillé also published books of imprese by Paolo Giovio and Gabriele Simeoni. Another work of iconography was the useful compilation...
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    never made such a claim. This is contested by Idan Sherer, who quotes Paolo Giovio saying that, per orders of their commander Fernando d'Ávalos, the arquebusiers...
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