Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
FARNESE, PIER LUIGI. Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient, in Italian, requesting approval of funds spent for the defense of Ancona. 1 page, 4to; seal and fragment of protective cover attached. Np, 16 January [1539]

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Farnese (1503-1547) was the illegitimate son of Alessandro Farnese (who became Pope Paul III) and member of the family of nobles who ruled Parma and Placenza between 1543 and 1731; he died at the hands of assassins.