... Toletana auctore, editum Vlyssiponae, anno salutis MDLII, a bucolic dialogue filled with classical topoi, and Syntra, a poem dedicated to her patron (D. Maria). We also have some letters, including letters sent to Pope Paul III. Sigea was by far the best and most...

... in rebuilding Palazzo Torriani. Alvise II attends to family affairs at Villalta. Michele becomes a favourite of Pope Paul III, thus creating lasting links with the powerful Farnese family, and rises in the hierarchy of the church in Rome. castellans Clement VII pope Cruel Carnival of 1511 Della Torre family...

..., and there is at least one suggestive precedent. Elation over the wedding was soon muted by grief and, perhaps, apprehension. Pope Paul III, protector of Michele Della Torre and his brothers for a decade and a half, died on Sunday 10 November 1549, the day after the wedding. The Della Torre family had lost a powerful...

... in 1543–4 he would have come to know Michele Della Torre, then chamberlain of Pope Paul III; and as one of the Dodici Nobili of the Accademia degli Uniti in 1551 he would have socialized with Gian Matteo Bembo on a weekly basis and would have had firsthand knowledge of the Della Torre situation. A few...