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16th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops

  • Pope Julius IIGiuliano della Rovere was born on the 5th of December 1443 in Albisola, a small coastal town near Savona in the Republic of Genoa, into a noble but…
  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici was born on the 26th of May 1478, exactly one month after his father, Giuliano de Medici, was murdered in the Florence Cathedral during the…
  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici entered the world on the 26th of May 1478 in Florence. His birth followed a tragedy that occurred exactly one month earlier.
  • Alessandro Farnese (cardinal)On the 7th of October 1520, a boy named Alessandro Farnese drew his first breath inside the family castle at Valentano. This small town sat in Tuscany, now…