Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro (

Valentano 250px, View of Valentano. Valentano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Viterbo, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is from the provincial capital, Viterbo. left, 220px, Rocca Farnese in Valentano. The placename is of uncertain ori ...

, February 1532 –

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, 18 July 1553) was the third duke of Castro. He was the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, and his wife Gerolama Orsini. He married

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on 14 February 1552. Orazio was at

when Emperor Charles V placed the city under siege. Orazio was killed 16 July 1553. Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Vol. IV, (The American Philosophical Society, 1984), 596, note119.

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* Edoardo del Vecchio, ''I Farnese'', Istituto di Studi Romani Editore, 1972. * Emilio Nasalli Rocca, I Farnese, Milano, Dall'Oglio, 1969. 1532 births 1553 deaths

Orazio Orazio is a male given name of Italian origin, derived from the Latin name ( ''nomen'') Horatius, from the Roman gens (clan) Horatia. People so named include: *Orazio Alfani (c. 1510–1583), Italian painter * Orazio Antinori (1811–1882), Ita ...

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