{"id":38110,"date":"2022-08-01T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/pier-luigi-farnese\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:42:48","slug":"pier-luigi-farnese","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/pier-luigi-farnese\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier Luigi Farnese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"zxx\">Pier Luigi Farnese was born in 1503. He was the first duke of Castro and of Parma from the Farnese family, son of Alessandro Farnese who became Pope with the name of <strong>Paul III<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Since he was a child, Pier Luigi showed up a violent and impetuous behaviour. He fought for the Emperor against the Catholics, despite his father career. One of his more eye-catching action, was represented by his attendance to the Sack of Rome in 1527.<\/p>\n<h3 lang=\"zxx\">Pier Luigi Farnese: the career<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">When his father finally became the Pope, he helped Pier Luigi in his political career. Pierluigi Farnese&#8217;s success started when he became sergeant of the Church in 1537. After that, he became duke of Castro, until he received from Emperor Charles V the endowment, becoming the Marquis of Novara in 1538.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Among his successful ventures, it&#8217;s important to remember the expedition to conquering the duchy of Camerino in 1538, the submission of Perugia city in 1540 and one year after, the submission of the rebel Ascanio Colonna.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">In 1545 Pierluigi became the duke of Parma and Piacenza; he worked to reach this endowment even if Charles V preferred Ottavio, his son. Actually Ottavio got married with <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/margherita-daustria\/\">Margherita d&#8217;Austria<\/a>, the illegittimate daughter of Charles V. Anyway Pierluigi was a good administrator, he pursued new laws, which were attacking the local nobility, that slowly showed its hate against him.<\/p>\n<h3 lang=\"zxx\">The conspirancy<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">The local nobility\u00a0 was not alone, actually even the imperial government started to be suspicious about his independent attitude.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Ferrante Gonzaga, head of Milan, wanted to conquer Piacenza and, pursuing his plan, he created a conspiracy involving the major part of the nobility from Piacenza.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">As a consequence, on the 10th September 1547, Pierluigi was killed and thrown out the window of the fortress &#8211; known as Cittadella Viscontea-, where he was waiting for the finishing of his castle.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">The Farnese family came back to Piacenza only in 1556.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierluigi Farnese was born in 1503. He was the first duke of Castro and of Parma from\u00a0 the Farnese family. He was the son of Paul III, who before becoming the Pope, was called Alessandro Farnese. Pier Luigi shown up a violent and impetuous behaviour; he was manly focused on the imperial interesses then on the papacy, even if his father started his clerical career. When his father finally became the Pope, helped Pier Luigi rising to his political career. Pierluigi Farnese \u2018s success started when he became sergeant of the Church in 1537. After that, he became duke of Castro, until he received from Carlo V the endowment to becoming the Marquis of Novara in 1538. It\u2019s important to remember the expedition to conquering the duchy of Camerino in 1538, the submission of Perugia city in 1540 and one year after another one, the submission of the rebel Ascanio Colonna. After a conflict with his father, Pierluigi became the duke of Parma and Piacenza in 1545; he worked to reach this endowement even if Carlo V prefered to choose as duke Ottavio, the son of Pierluigi. Actually Ottavio got merried with Margherita d\u2019 Austria, the natural daughter of Carlo V. Anyway Pierluigi was a good administrator, he worked well, pursuing new laws which were attracking the local nobility\u2019s hate. But the local nobility\u00a0 was not the only one who slowly was hating his attitude, actually even the imperial gouvernement started to be suspicious about Pierluigi. Meanwhile Ferrante Gonzaga, head of Milano, was interested to conquer Piacenza. Pursueing his plan he created a conspiracy involving the major part of the nobility from Piacenza. A cause of this mean plan, on the 10th september 1547, Pierluigi was killed. 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