Scipione
Proper noun
Meaning
Scipione (plural Scipiones)
A surname from Italian.
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Examples
A letter from the Bishop of Caserta in Naples to Cardinal Scipione Borghese in Rome, dated 29 July 1610, informs the Cardinal that the Marchesa of Caravaggio is holding two John the Baptists and a Magdalene which were intended for Borghese.
Barroll, 172; A letter from Anne to Scipione Borghese of 31 July 1601 is "open in its embrace of Catholicism", according to McManus, 93. Historians have traditionally dismissed Anne as a lightweight queen, frivolous and self-indulgent.
Character and policy Portrait by Scipione Pulzone, c. 1578 As a young man, Michele Ghislieri was eager to join the inquisition.