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    construction was completed in 1577. The heirs sold it in 1590 to Pirro I Visconti Borromeo [it], who completed it and terraced the surrounding land to be...
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    dialect collection of verses. Other more active members include Pirro Visconti Borromeo, noble protector of the order, engraver Ambrogio Brambilla and...
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    appointed Archbishop of Valencia.Pirro, p. 479-480. Gauchat, IV, p. 249 with note 7. A member of the Milanese noble family, Visconti had been titular Archbishop...
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    whose state existed until 1728. Francesco I (1382–1407) abandoned the traditional alliance with the Visconti of Milan, in order to align their rising power...
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    in Rome. He had the Villa d'Este built in Tivoli by Mannerist architect Pirro Ligorio, to match the other palaces he was building in Rome. To decorate...
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    This is a list of notable southern Italians. Pirro Ligorio (c. 1510 – 1583), was a famous architect of the late Italian Renaissance. Giacomo del Duca...
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  • actress, known for playing Carlo's mother, the female lead in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1943). Claudia Cardinale (born 1938), actress Chiara Caselli...
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