• Pier Francesco Orsini (4 July 1523 – 28 January 1583), also called Vicino Orsini, was an Italian condottiero, patron of the arts, and duke of Bomarzo....
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    his lands passed to his cousin Pietro Orsini, count of Muro Lucano (died 1641). The latter's nephew Pier Francesco, who had renounced the succession in...
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    based on his 1962 novel about the 16th-century Italian eccentric Pier Francesco Orsini. The opera makes use of twelve-tone techniques, quarter tones –...
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    populate this predominantly barren landscape. It is the work of Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino (1528–1588), a condottiero or mercenary and a patron...
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    populate this predominantly barren landscape. It was commissioned by Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino, a 16th-century condottiero, and patron of the arts...
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  • priest Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666), Italian painter Pier Francesco Orsini (1523–1583), Italian military leader and patron of the arts Pier Maria Pennacchi...
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  • palace of Bomarzo and concerns the morally and physically deformed Pier Francesco Orsini, Duke of Bomarzo. "Mujica Láinez, Manuel". Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    the island of Bisentina on Lake Bolsena. Pier Luigi Farnese had married Girolama Orsini, daughter of Luigi Orsini and wife and first cousin Giulia Conti...
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    Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (b. 1493) January 28 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (b. 1523) February 27 – Richard...
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    June 5 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574) July 4 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583) July 18 – Duke George...
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  • first great success occurred in 1967, when he created the role of Pier Francesco Orsini in Ginastera's Bomarzo, for the Opera Society of Washington. He...
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  • Princess Isabella Orsini de Ligne de La Trémoïlle (born 2 December 1974) is an Italian actress. By marriage, she is a member of the House of Ligne, a Belgian...
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    following his death (1535), the project was taken over by his second son Pier Francesco, called Vicino. To his efforts we owe the loggia and the flat in the...
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    in 1973. On 25 March 1676 viceroy Antonio Alvarez and cardinal Pier Francesco Orsini (future Pope Benedict XIII) saw the sanctuary's image of Mary surrounded...
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    famous and extravagant of the Mannerist gardens. It was created for Pier Francesco Orsini (1523–84) near the village of Bomarzo. It was witty and irreverent...
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    Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (b. 1493) January 28 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (b. 1523) February 27 – Richard...
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    Huesca; Member of the Lay Dominicans (Spain) Pope Benedict XIII [Pier Francesco Orsini] (rel. name: Vincenzo Maria) (1649–1730), Professed Priest of the...
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  • crime drama television series created by Guido Iuculano [it] and Davide Orsini [it], loosely based on the life of Lidia Poët, the first modern female lawyer...
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  • Horse Manuel Mujica Laínez, Bomarzo (1962) – historical novel about Pier Francesco Orsini Nick Carter (various authors), Run, Spy, Run (1964) – spy thriller...
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    the Italian regions of Parma and Piacenza. After marrying into the noble Orsini family in the Papal States, Farnese soon acquainted herself with, and initiated...
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  • Regent (1469–1470) Girolamo di Francesco Belluzzi, Paolo di Angelo di Ciono, Captains Regent (1470) Fabrizio di Pier Leone Corbelli, Riccio di Andrea...
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    and extravagant of the Manieristic gardens. It was created for Pier Francesco Orsini (1523–1585). It was witty and irreverent, and violated all the rules...
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  • June 5 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574) July 4 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583) July 18 – Duke George...
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    Felice gave birth to two surviving sons, Francesco and Girolamo, choosing the second as the heir to the Orsini fortune (and thus ensuring a rivalry with...
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    favourite son, and entrusted him with the campaign against the powerful Orsini family who controlled a large part of the Roman Campagna and had sided with...
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    Tullio Savelli and Violante Orsini Don Federico (+ 1620) = Olimpia Orsini, daughter of Giordano Orsini Duke of San Gemini Francesco (+1646) = Margherita Ravignani...
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    Orlyk, associate of Ivan Mazepa Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero Alberto Ginastera: Bomarzo Emperor Marcus Salvius...
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    eldest son of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) and Clarice Orsini. He was raised alongside his younger brother Giovanni, who would go on to...
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    Siena against the Orsini of Pitigliano and, after his victory, received the title of Senator of Rome. His son, Gabriele Francesco, also took up a military...
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  • Maria Narducci Giovanni Battista Oddoni Cesare Orsini Pietro Francesco Orsini Arrigo Palladio Pier Francesco Paoli Giovanni Battista Paolucci Pace Pasini...
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