The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 215
which had been regular inhis youth, were then nearly disfigured by the usual con-comitants of a debauched life. He was ignorant, credu-lous, and evidently beneath the part which he presumedto perform. It is said that he was easy of access, andindulgent to his servants. He displayed some firmnessin… … F A . THE DUKE OF PARMA. Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, great grand-son of Pope Paul III. and by his mothers side grandsonof Charles V. is indebted for his reputation, in a princi-pal degree, to his military talents. To these, however,he united a goodness of heart, (which caused him to…
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