Giuliano della rovere biography of donald
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Evil-doer
Full Name
Giuliano della Rovere
Occupation
Religious leader
Powers / Skills
Goals
Become Pope
Type of Villain
Rival Priest
Giuliano della Rovere is one of the main antagonists in the Showtime series The Borgias. He is the bitter rival of Rodrigo Borgia.
He was portrayed by Colm Feore, who also played Rudolf Höss in Nuremberg, The Dollmaker in Gotham, Donald Menken in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, King Laufey in Thor, Randall Flynn in Revolution, André Linoge in Storm of the Century, Sir Reginald Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, Detective Frank McDuff in National Security, Zhylaw in The Chronicles of Riddick, and Jordan Hayes in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
As the series began Pope Innocent VIII was dying. He regretfully stated that the church is in very bad shape and asked who would clean up the church, a question that seemed to be pointed at della Rovere and Borgia.
During th
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(1) 1. GROSSO DELLA ROVERE, , Clemente (ca. )
Birth. Ca. , Savona. Second child of Antonio Grosso and Maria Basso della Rovere. Brother of huvudregel Leonardo Grosso della Rovere (). Grand-nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, on his mother's side. Nephew of Cardinal Girolamo Basso della Rovere (). Relative of Cardinal Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere (). Second cousin of Pope Julius II. He was also known as huvudregel Della Rovere.
Education. Entered the order of the Friars Minor Conventual (Franciscans) in Savona; member of the province of Liguria. (No further educational information found).
Sacred orders. (No information found).
Early life. Referendary of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature. Papal treasurer in Perugia.
Episcopate. Elected bishop of Mende, October 27, Consecrated (no upplysning found). Abbot comendatario of the Cistercian monastery of Notre-Dame dem Bonnecombe, diocese of Rodez, April 29, Named vice-legate in Avignon by huvudregel Giuliano della Ro
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Italian family that included two popes and three dukes of Urbino, all of them art patrons. The family achieved prominence when Francescodella Rovere (–84) became pope in as Sixtus IV. He was a scholar and was strict in his personal life, but he was ruthless in pursuing his aims and unscrupulous in advancing his relatives (he made six of his nephews cardinals). As a patron, he played a key role in the transformation of Rome from a medieval to a Renaissance city, laying out new streets and widening old ones, building the Ponte Sisto over the Tiber, and restoring old buildings and founding new ones, notably the churches of S. Maria del Popolo and S. Maria della Pace. His most famous foundation is the chapel named after him in the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel. It was built in –80 and the celebrated fresco decorations by Botticelli, Perugino, and other artists were begun in His huge expenditure, on war as well as art, left the papal treasury depleted.
Sixtus's tomb, by Antoni