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    House of Borromeo were merchants in San Miniato around 1300 and became bankers in Milan after 1370. Vitaliano de' Vitaliani, who acquired the name of...
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    Charles Borromeo (Italian: Carlo Borromeo; Latin: Carolus Borromeus; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and...
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    Beatrice dei Principi Borromeo Arese Taverna (born 18 August 1985) is an Italian journalist and fashion model. Born into an aristocratic family, she graduated...
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  • Borromeo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: House of Borromeo, an aristocratic family in Milan Andrea Borromeo (c. 1615 – 1683), Theatine...
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  • dei Principi Borromeo Arese Taverna; 8 August 1983) is an Italian equestrian and horse breeder. She is a member of the House of Borromeo, an Italian noble...
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    tiny fishing village: but that year Carlo III of the influential House of Borromeo began the construction of a palazzo dedicated to his wife, Isabella D'Adda...
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    owned by the House of Borromeo of San Miniato in the 14th century and possibly earlier. Peschiera Borromeo's main attraction is the Borromeo Castle, built...
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    Rocca Borromeo di Angera, or Rocca d'Angera, also called Borromeo Castle, is a rocca on a hilltop above the town of Angera in the Province of Varese...
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  • Andrea Borromeo (c. 1615 – 2 January 1683) was an Italian Theatine priest and missionary. A member of the noble House of Borromeo, he was one of the thirteen...
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  • Marta Ferri (category House of Borromeo)
    Marta Ferri Borromeo (born 21 July 1984) is an Italian fashion designer. By marriage she is a member of the House of Borromeo, an Italian noble family...
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    Borromean Islands (category House of Borromeo)
    derives from the Borromeo family, which started acquiring them in the early 16th century (Isola Madre) and still owns the majority of them (Isola Madre...
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    Federico Borromeo (Italian: [fedeˈriːko borroˈmɛːo]; 18 August 1564 – 21 September 1631) was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, a prominent...
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    Isola Madre (category House of Borromeo)
    island to the nuns of the monastery of San Felice of Pavia. In 1501 Lancillotto Borromeo, one of the five children of Giovanni III Borromeo and Cleofe Pio...
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    Vitaliano I Borromeo (died 1449) was an Italian Ghibelline nobleman from Milan, first Count of Arona. His father was Giacomo Vitaliani, ambassador of Padua...
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    are named after the Italian House of Borromeo, who used the circular form of these rings as an element of their coat of arms, but designs based on the...
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    Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo, or Misión de San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, first built in 1797, is one of the most authentically restored...
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  • Filippo Borromeo (1419–1464) was the son of Vitaliano I Borromeo and Ambrosina Fagnini. He was second Count of Arona, and greatly expanded his father's...
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    don Agostino Borromeo came forth from the aristocratic House of Borromeo family. He studied political science at the Sapienza University of Rome. He also...
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  • House of Bardi House of Boncompagni House of Borghese House of Borgia House of Borromeo House of Bourbon-Parma House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies House of...
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    Giulio Visconti Borromeo Arese, Count of Pieve di Brebbia (1664 - 1750) was an Italian soldier and diplomat in the service of the Habsburg Monarchy. From...
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    Isola dei Pescatori (category House of Borromeo)
    Unlike Isola Bella and Isola Madre, the island has never belonged to the Borromeo family. The island is about 375 metres long by 100 metres wide. A narrow...
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    of the abbey. In 1439 it was acquired by Vitaliano Borromeo and, as a result, the House of Borromeo. It was in Arona that the twenty-year-old Oscar Wilde...
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    Edoardo Borromeo (3 August 1822 – 30 November 1881) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Maestro di Camera to Pius IX and was Cardinal-Deacon...
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    Isolino di San Giovanni (category House of Borromeo)
    the middle of the twelfth century the island was in the possession of counts belonging to the Barbavara di Gravellona family. The Borromeos made various...
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    aristocratic journalist Beatrice Borromeo who broke the story of his father's confession on a video regarding the death of Dirk Hamer. Vittorio Emanuele...
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    John Elkann (category American people of Italian descent)
    Lavinia Borromeo (born Lavinia Ida Borromeo-Arese on 19 March 1977 in Milan) a member of the prominent Italian aristocratic family the House of Borromeo. She...
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  • Christian Borromeo is a retired Italian actor. He made several feature films, perhaps best known for Ruggero Deodato's The House on the Edge of the Park...
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  • archbishop of Milan from 1595, patron of art Edoardo Borromeo (1822–1881), Italian cardinal from 1868, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church House of Borromeo, to...
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    Vitaliano Borromeo (3 March 1720 – 7 June 1793) was a Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal. Vitaliano was born in Milan, the third son of Giovanni Benedetto...
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    Lordships (Signories) of Perugia, Foligno, Fano, Pesaro, Rimini, Cesena, Forlì, Faenza and Imola Examples of Italian noble houses of the papacy include:...
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