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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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If Francesco could successfully act the part of a woman, and find a man willing to engage briefly in the same "transgression," then the curtain need not fall on the Barberini family drama, to put it in theatrical terms.
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