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Chigi family, the Glossary

The House of Chigi is an Italian princely family of Sienese origin descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, which possessed castles in the Maremma, southern Tuscany.^[1]

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House of Chigi
Papal families
Political families of Italy

Agostino Chigi

Agostino Andrea Chigi (29 November 1466 – April 11, 1520) was an Italian banker and patron of the Renaissance. Chigi family and Agostino Chigi are House of Chigi.

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Albani family

The Albani were an aristocratic Roman family from the 16th to the 19th century. Chigi family and Albani family are papal families.

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Albanians

The Albanians (Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Ariccia

Ariccia (Latin: Aricia) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Central Italy, southeast of Rome.

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Berry College

Berry College is an American private liberal arts college in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia.

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Campagnano di Roma

Campagnano di Roma is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about northwest of Rome.

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Cardinal-nephew

A cardinal-nephew (cardinalis nepos; cardinale nipote; valido de su tío; cardeal-sobrinho; prince de fortune)Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 114.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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The Chigi Chapel or Chapel of the Madonna of Loreto (Cappella Chigi or Cappella della Madonna di Loreto) is the second chapel on the left-hand side of the nave in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.

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Chigi Palace

The Chigi Palace (Palazzo Chigi) is a palace and former noble residence in Rome which is the seat of the Council of Ministers and the official residence of the Prime Minister of Italy. Chigi family and Chigi Palace are House of Chigi.

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Corsican Guard

The Corsican Guard (Italian and Corsican: Guardia Corsa) was a military unit of the Papal States composed exclusively of Corsican mercenaries on duty in Rome, having the functions of an urban militia and guard for the Pope.

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Count

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility.

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Della Rovere

The House of Della Rovere (literally "of the oak tree") was a powerful Italian noble family. Chigi family and Della Rovere are papal families.

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Duke

Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.

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Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,Oxford English Dictionary, "dynasty, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897.

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Farnese, Lazio

Farnese is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region of Latium, located about northwest of Rome and about northwest of Viterbo.

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Flavio Chigi (1631–1693)

Flavio Chigi (10 May 1631 – 13 September 1693) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and Duke of Ariccia.

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Flavio Chigi (1711–1771)

Cardinal Flavio Chigi Flavio Chigi (8 September 1711 – 12 July 1771), Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Giulio Romano

Giulio Pippi (– 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano (Jules Romain), was an Italian painter and architect.

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Government of Italy

The Government of Italy is a democratic republic, and was established by the Italian constitution in 1948.

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Grand Duchy of Tuscany

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Granducato di Toscana; Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) was an Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1860, replacing the Republic of Florence.

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Il Sodoma

Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.

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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; I.; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.

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Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere

Ludovico Chigi della Rovere-Albani (10 July 1866 – 14 November 1951) was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951. Chigi family and Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere are House of Chigi.

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Maremma

The Maremma (from Latin maritima, "maritime ") is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Motto

A motto (derived from the Latin, 'mutter', by way of Italian, 'word' or 'sentence') is a sentence or phrase expressing a belief or purpose, or the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group, or organisation.

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Nobility of Italy

The nobility of Italy (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.

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Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia

The Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia was the ducal palace of the Chigi family located in the center of the town of Ariccia, near Rome, Italy.

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Papal conclave

A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope.

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Pontificalis Domus

Pontificalis Domus (The Papal Household) was a motu proprio document issued by Pope Paul VI on 28 March 1968, in the fifth year of his pontificate.

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Pope

The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja; 1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) (epithet: Valentinus ("The Valencian")) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503. Born into the prominent Borgia family in Xàtiva in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon (now Spain), Rodrigo studied law at the University of Bologna.

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Pope Alexander VII

Pope Alexander VII (Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death, in May 1667. Chigi family and Pope Alexander VII are House of Chigi.

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Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II (Iulius II; Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.

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Prince

A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family.

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Prince of the Holy Roman Empire

Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (princeps imperii, Reichsfürst, cf. Fürst) was a title attributed to a hereditary ruler, nobleman or prelate recognised by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Republic of Siena

The Republic of Siena (Repubblica di Siena, Respublica Senensis) was a historic state consisting of the city of Siena and its surrounding territory in Tuscany, central Italy.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Santa Maria del Popolo

The Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo (Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo) is a titular church and a minor basilica in Rome run by the Augustinian order.

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Savelli family

The House of Savelli (de Sabellis in documents) were a rich and influential Roman aristocratic family who rose to prominence in the 13th century, and which included several popes, senators and condottieri. Chigi family and Savelli family are papal families.

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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn was a county of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, comprising the lands of the region of Sayn.

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Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo (– 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school.

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Siena

Siena (Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy.

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Sovereign Military Order of Malta

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis), commonly known as the Order of Malta or Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigi_family

Also known as Chigi-Albani, Chigi-Albani family, House of Chigi, Prince Chigi, Prince Mario Chigi Albano della Rovere.

, Villa Cetinale, Villa Farnesina.

Chigi family, the Glossary

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House of Chigi

Papal families

Political families of Italy

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