Carlo Cesare Malvasia
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Carlo Cesare Malvasia was an Italian scholar and art historian from Bologna, best known for his biographies of Baroque artists titled Felsina pittrice, published in 1678. Together with his contemporar
Malvasia's biography of the Carracci in the Felsina pittrice of 1678. This particular copy belonged to Antonio Canova
Cornelio Malvasia
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Cornelio Malvasia, Marquis of Bismantova was an Italian aristocrat, patron of astronomy and military leader.
Carlo Cesare Malvasia
…boundaries of the Papal States. Malvasia at once enlisted on the side of the pope. He fought with valor in a brigade commanded by his cousin, the Marchese Cornelio Malvasia, leader of the Papal Army cavalry. After the end of the War of Castro, Malvasia became gravely ill. Probably about this time, in the early 1640s, he…
Cornelio Malvasia
Discorso dell'anno astrologico 1649, 1649