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Porcia gens The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome. Its members first appear in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to achieve the consulship was Marcus Porcius Cato in 195 BC, and from then un ...

, ancient Roman family **

Porcia (wife of Brutus) Porcia ( – June 43 BC), occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, was a Roman Republic, Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Cato the Younger, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato ...

Porcia (sister of Cato the Younger) Porcia (before 95 BC – 46/45 BC), was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato and Livia. Biography Early life She was the elder sister of Cato the Younger and the younger half-sister of Servilia, Servilia Minor and Gnaeus Servilius Caepi ...

* Ferdinando Porcia (1835–1896), Italian painter * Francesco Porcia (1531–1612), Italian painter

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Valerian and Porcian laws The Valerian and Porcian laws were Roman laws passed between 509 BC and 184 BC. They exempted Roman citizens from degrading and shameful forms of punishment, such as whipping, scourging, or crucifixion. They also established certain rights for Ro ...

, Roman laws *

Basilica Porcia The Basilica Porcia was the first civil basilica built in ancient Rome. It was built by order of Marcus Porcius Cato in 184 BC as censor and is named after him. He built it as a space for administering laws and for merchants to meet, against some ...

, civil basilica in Rome *

Porcia, Friuli Venezia Giulia Porcia () is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone, in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Pordenone. Main sights *The castle, residence from the 12 ...

, a municipality in Italy * Porcia (Fra Bartolomeo), painting by

Fra Bartolomeo Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Ital ...

* Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera, painting by

Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...

Palais Porcia, Vienna Palais Porcia is a former urban residence in the western quarter of the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria. It stands at 23, Herrengasse between Palais Kinsky and Palais Trautmansdorff and across Palais Harrach. The palace was built in 1546 for ...

Palais Porcia The Palais Porcia is a Baroque architecture, Baroque mansion in Munich, southern Germany, which served as residence for Count Fugger. It is Munich's oldest still existing Baroque-style palace. Building style Enrico Zuccalli built the mansion ...

, Baroque mansion in Munich *

Palazzo Loredan Porcia The Palazzo Loredan Porcia is a 16th-century patrician palace of the Loredan family located in the city of Pordenone, in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five au ...

, palace of the

House of Loredan The House of Loredan (, ) is a Republic of Venice, Venetian Venetian nobility, noble family of supposed Ancient Rome, ancient Roman origin, which has played a significant role in shaping the history of the History of the Mediterranean region, Me ...

Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian language, Venetian and ) is a city and (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the capital of the Province of Pordenone, Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone. The name comes from Lati ...

Komödienspiele Porcia ''Komödienspiele Porcia'' is an annual festival of drama in the tradition of the ''commedia dell'arte''. It is held each summer at Porcia Castle in the Austrian town of Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia. After a group of Viennese dramatists aroun ...

, annual comedy festival *

Schloss Porcia Schloss Porcia (Porcia Castle) is a castle in Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is one of the most significant Renaissance buildings in Austria. History The construction of the castle began in 1533 at the behest of Coun ...

, a castle in

Spittal an der Drau Spittal an der Drau is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. It is the administrative centre of Spittal an der Drau District, Austria's second largest district (''Districts of Austria, Bezirk'') b ...

, Austria

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