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Andrea dei Franceschi

Everything this archive holds under this name, gathered from every page of the site.

Whose face this is Andrea dei Franceschi, 1473–1552, Grand Chancellor of Venice, painted by Titian. Licences and holders on Namesakes.

PlaceVenice
Years1552
LineOut of Venice
Found inNamesake
What the archive knows

Chancery

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Appears on: The Other Franceschi · Everyone · defranceski.com

The Other Franceschi

…because a notary of forty years leaves an archive. The Zadar notarial fond is the obvious place to test everything the nobiliary literature says about this family. Hrvatski biografski leksikon, vol. 4 (Čoralić, 1989), p. 353. andrea Andrea dei Franceschi 1473–1552 Venice Chancery titian-andrea Grand Chancellor of the Republic of Venice from 1529 until his death in 1551 — the highest office a man not of the patriciate could hold, the permanent head of…

Everyone

…della Francesca c.1415–1492 Painter Sansepolcro Son of Benedetto de' Franceschi and Romana di Perino da Monterchi no Andrea dei Franceschi fl. 1525 Chancellor of Venice Venice Became Grand Chancellor at 57; portrayed by Titian no Francesco de' Franceschi fl. 1443–1468 Painter…

defranceski.com

…actually be tested. The People — already here, and then some The old page had eleven figures. This archive has twenty-eight, every one labelled kin or not kin, and the two the earlier reckoning listed as still owed — Andrea dei Franceschi and Titian, and Francesco the painter — have both since been written. Piero della Francesca, Girolamo, Alessandro OP, Domenico, Mariano, Carlo Francesco, and both Napoleonic Defrance / Franceschi-Delonne are all present with fuller lives than the old…

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