Codice albumGBB-F-007313

Codice inventarioGBB-F-007313-0000

1425 ca, Pescara, ITALY: Portrait of Marquess FERRANTE D'AVALOS D'AQUINO D'ARAGONA Fernando Francesco de Avalos, marquis of Pescara (1490, Naples-Dec. 2, 1525, Milan). Engraved portrait by Nicolò Nelli (ca. 1552 1579), 1568. Married to celebrated woman poet VITTORIA COLONNA, friend of artist Michelangelo Bonarroti. Italian leader of the forces of Holy Roman emperor Charles V against the French king Francis I. A pupil of the soldier of fortune Prospero Colonna, Pescara commanded Spanish forces in Italy in the struggles from 1512 to 1525 between the French on one side and the Spanish and Germans on the other

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