Cornelio Malvasia
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Cornelio Malvasia, Marquis of Bismantova was an Italian aristocrat, patron of astronomy and military leader.
Cornelio Malvasia
Discorso dell'anno astrologico 1649, 1649
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
Cornelio Malvasia
…an Italian aristocrat, patron of astronomy and military leader. Malvasia was born in 1603 to an aristocratic family of Bologna and was the cousin of Carlo Cesare Malvasia. During the Wars of Castro he led papal army cavalry against the Dukes of Parma. He became close to the nephews of Pope Urban VIII and his later…
Malvasia's biography of the Carracci in the Felsina pittrice of 1678. This particular copy belonged to Antonio Canova