Riario
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Riario was an Italian noble family from Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

. Its member included three famous nephews of Francesco della Rovere, who reigned as Pope Sixtus IV
Pope Sixtus IV
Pope Sixtus IV , born Francesco della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484. His accomplishments as Pope included the establishment of the Sistine Chapel; the group of artists that he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpiece of the city's new artistic age,...

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  • Girolamo Riario
    Girolamo Riario
    Girolamo Riario was Lord of Imola and Forlì in the 15th century.- Biography :Born in Savona, Riario was the son of Paolo Riario and Bianca della Rovere...

     (Savona 1443 - Forlí 1488), Lord of Imola and Forlì
  • Pietro Riario
    Pietro Riario
    Pietro Riario was an Italian cardinal and Papal diplomat.-Biography:Born in Savona, he was the son of Paolo Riario and Pope Sixtus IVs' sister, Bianca Della Rovere. Sixtus nominated him in 1471 bishop of Treviso and cardinal, and, in 1473, archbishop of Florence. He was entrusted with Sixtus'...

     (1445 - 1474), humanist son of Paolo and Sixtus' sister, Bianca Della Rovere
  • Raffaele Riario
    Raffaele Riario
    Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario was an Italian Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the one who invited Michelangelo to Rome. He was a patron of the arts...

     (1451 - Rome 1521), the famous patron of the arts as "Cardinal Riario"
  • Bianca Riario
    Bianca Riario
    Bianca Riario was an Italian noblewoman, and the eldest child and only daughter of Caterina Sforza, Lady of Imola, Countess of Forlì, by the latter's first husband, Girolamo Riario, a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV....

    (1478 - after 1522), daughter of Girolamo.
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