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Barberini

Italian family, originally from Florence, who were raised to a high rank among the Roman nobility, when one of its members, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, became pope 1623, assuming the name Urban VIII .

The Palazzo Barberini in Rome was built by Bernini, and gave its name to the square before it. It contains a museum, a gallery of paintings, and a library, which was collected by Cardinal Francis Barberini, one of the nephews of Urban VIII.



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In the end I was obliged to be satisfied with the Piazza Barberini, after I had exerted myself in vain to find an anti-Christian quarter.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Peter's; he designed the Pope; he designed the Pantheon, the uniform of the Pope's soldiers, the Tiber, the Vatican, the Coliseum, the Capitol, the Tarpeian Rock, the Barberini Palace, St.
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