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Odoardo Farnese

1573 - 1626

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Odoardo Farnese (6 December 1573 – 21 February 1626) was an Italian nobleman, the second son of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Maria of Portugal, known for his patronage of the arts. He became a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in 1591, and briefly acted as regent of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza for his nephew Odoardo from 1622 to 1626. Cardinal Odoardo is probably best known today for commissioning the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci to fresco the Camerino in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Odoardo Farnese has received more than 20,047 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Odoardo Farnese is the 10,226th most popular politician (down from 10,018th in 2019), the 2,621st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,532nd in 2019) and the 681st most popular Italian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Odoardo Farnese ranks 10,226 out of 19,576. Before him are Nebetah, Gerard, Duke of Lorraine, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Abdalla Hamdok, Bera, Count of Barcelona, and Tito Okello. After him are Borjana Krišto, Thilo Sarrazin, Frank Caprio, Nitocris I, Oswiu, and Kōichi Kido.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1573, Odoardo Farnese ranks 15. Before him are Ukita Hideie, Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Giovanni Battista Crespi. After him are George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Robert Catesby, Jagat Gosain, Pietro Carrera, and Elias Holl. Among people deceased in 1626, Odoardo Farnese ranks 17. Before him are Marino Ghetaldi, Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pietro Cataldi, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Paul Bril, and Théophile de Viau. After him are John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Edmund Gunter, Salomon de Brosse, Malik Ambar, and Edward Alleyn.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Odoardo Farnese ranks 2,621 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcia (33), Tonino Delli Colli (1923), Christian Panucci (1973), Lanza del Vasto (1901), Marcantonio Memmo (1536), and Constantin Hansen (1804). After him are Odoardo Beccari (1843), Ottavia Piccolo (1949), Pasquale Cicogna (1509), Thrasybulus of Syracuse (-500), Alexander of Bergamo (201), and Marcantonio Trivisan (1475).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Odoardo Farnese ranks 681. Before him are Titus Flavius Sabinus (8), Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1395), Marino Grimani (1532), Roberto Fiore (1959), Marcia (33), and Marcantonio Memmo (1536). After him are Pasquale Cicogna (1509), Thrasybulus of Syracuse (-500), Marcantonio Trivisan (1475), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-300), Tribuno Memmo (1000), and Francesco I Gonzaga (1366).

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