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    A crown-cardinal (Italian: cardinale della corona) was a cardinal protector of a Roman Catholic nation, nominated or funded by a Catholic monarch to serve...
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    patron of Torquato Tasso, and of Girolamo Frescobaldi. Bandi generali del cardinale Aldobrandino da osservarsi nella città, stato et legatione di Ferrara...
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    One sometimes sees the date of 1527, as in Nicola Bernabei, Vita del Cardinale Giovanni Morone Vescovo di Modena (Modena 1885), 3. But this is an error...
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    Gulik-Eubel, p. 333. Sanuto (1897), XLVI, p. 359, 363-365, 375. Cardinals Egidio, Cesi and Orsini were turned over to Cardinal Pompeo Colonna as hostages in the...
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    and rebuilt) Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila (destroyed) Palazzo Cesi-Armellini Palazzo Cesi (destroyed) Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni...
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    part in the damnation memoriae that Del Monte was subjected to. But Federico Cesi and his Accademia dei Lincei were also dedicated followers of what they...
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    was so named after its promoter, cardinal Michele Bonelli, nicknamed "Cardinale Alessandrino" from his city of origin in Piedmont. During the Roman Age...
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    Tassoni praised him in a verse of his mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita. Federico Cesi portrayed him as a child prodigy, whose great ingegno (“ingegno grande”)...
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    of the scientific academies in Italy, was founded in 1603 in Rome by Federico Cesi. The academy dedicated its activities to the study of the natural and...
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    Orvieto, reported (Sanuto, p. 165) that the dead cardinals were: Aracoeli, Cesi, Santiquattro and Ponzetta. Among those in the Castel S. Angelo was Paolo...
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