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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ranuccio Farnese

1530 - 1565

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Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese (11 August 1530 – 29 October 1565) was an Italian prelate and a grandson of Pope Paul III (Alessandro Farnese). He held various prestigious and lucrative offices in the Church, including Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Lucia in Selci (1545) and Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1565). At the age of 15 he was created a cardinal by his grandfather the pope, which gained him the nickname Il Cardinalino ("Little Cardinal"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranuccio Farnese has received more than 4,492 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ranuccio Farnese is the 1,271st most popular religious figure (up from 1,433rd in 2019), the 1,857th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,248th in 2019) and the 355th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ranuccio Farnese ranks 1,271 out of 2,238Before him are Maximianus of Ravenna, Angelo Amato, Victor Maurus, Hugh of Châteauneuf, Tilopa, and Tola. After him are Jean Calas, Lubomyr Husar, Pedro Arrupe, Andrew Avellino, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Désiré-Joseph Mercier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Ranuccio Farnese ranks 15Before him are Ruy López de Segura, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, Christopher Báthory, Juan de Herrera, and Starina Novak. After him are Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Giambattista Benedetti, Nicholas Rémy, Symon Budny, Grace O'Malley, and Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1565, Ranuccio Farnese ranks 10Before him are Lodovico Ferrari, Queen Munjeong, William Farel, Cipriano de Rore, Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru. After him are Diego Laynez, Semiz Ali Pasha, Lucia Anguissola, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Lope de Rueda, and Nicolaus von Amsdorf.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ranuccio Farnese ranks 1,857 out of 4,668Before him are Lippo Memmi (1291), Leopoldo de' Medici (1617), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Antonio Corradini (1688), Baldus de Ubaldis (1327), and Agostino Tassi (1578). After him are Tarcisio Burgnich (1939), Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377), Andrew Avellino (1521), Gaius Marius the Younger (-109), Quintus Servilius Caepio (-200), and Aulus Hirtius (-90).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Ranuccio Farnese ranks 355Before him are Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901), Renato Martino (1932), Joseph Freinademetz (1852), Saint Homobonus (1117), Carlo Maria Martini (1927), and Angelo Amato (1938). After him are Andrew Avellino (1521), Piero Marini (1942), Antoninus of Florence (1389), Agnes of Montepulciano (1268), Virginia Centurione Bracelli (1587), and Antipope Sylvester IV (1100).