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- 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 Alexander VIRoderic de Borja entered the world around 1431 in Xàtiva, a town nestled within the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.
- 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 Pius VIIBarnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti entered the world on the 14th of August 1742 in Cesena. He was the youngest son of Count Scipione Chiaramonti and…
- 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…