Pier Francesco Orsini
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Pier Francesco Orsini, also called Vicino Orsini, was an Italian condottiero, patron of the arts, and duke of Bomarzo. He is famous as the commissioner of the Mannerist Park of the Monsters in Bomarzo
Orcus mouth at the Park of the Monsters.
Portrait of Donna Faustina Orsini Mattei (1557-1594) by Scipione Pulzone
Orsini family
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The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: Stephen I
Pier Francesco Orsini
…He is famous as the commissioner of the Mannerist Park of the Monsters in Bomarzo (northern Lazio). Born in Rome, he was the son of Giovanni Corrado Orsini and Clarice Orsini di Franciotto di Monterotondo. His maternal grandmother, Violante di Vicino Orsini di Foglia, had been transmitted the rights to the…
Palazzo Orsini in Fara Sabina, northern Lazio, central Italy. The Orsini were amongst the main feudatories in Italy from the Middle Ages onwards, holding a great number of fiefs and lordships in Lazio and in the Kingdom of Naples.
The Tower of Raimondello Orsini in Taranto, c. 1880.
Gerolama Orsini, Pier Luigi's wife.
The Orsini Castle in Nerola.