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Ottaviano Riario (born September 1479 – 1523) was an Italian condottiero and Lord of Imola and Forlì. Despite his nominal leadership, the real power lay with his mother Caterina Sforza . Early life [ edit ]
Ottaviano Riario (1479 – 1533) was an Italian condottiero, a Lord of Imola and Forlì, and the son of Girolamo Riario and Caterina Sforza. In 1488, when the city of Forlì was attacked by the Orsi brothers, Checco and Ludovico, the same pair which his mother had hired to kill his father, Ottaviano was taken prisoner by the two along with his sister, Bianca.[1] While he and his sister were ...
Database: Ottaviano Riario. Date of Birth: 1479. Profession: Count, Noble. Ottaviano entered the service of the Florentine Republic as a condottiero when he was 19, at the request of his mother, Caterina Sforza, who wanted to cement the amiable relations with Florence. He commanded 100 men form Forlì, but terminated his contract after only a ...
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Caterina Sforza, reproduction of the medal about 1488. Caterina Sforza (1463 – 28 May 1509) was an Italian noblewoman, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola, firstly with her husband Girolamo Riario, and after his death as a regent of her son Ottaviano .
Girolamo Riario (1443 – 14 April 1488) was Lord of Imola (from 1473) and Forlì (from 1480). He served as Captain General of the Church under his uncle Pope Sixtus IV.He was one of the organisers of the failed 1478 Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, the rulers of Florence, and was assassinated 10 years later by members of the Forlivese Orsi family.
Massimo Giansante, RIARIO, Ottaviano, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 87, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2016. (EN) David M. Cheney, Ottaviano Riario, in Catholic Hierarchy. Condottieri di ventura. Ottaviano Riario., su condottieridiventura.it. URL consultato il 7 febbraio 2014 (archiviato dall'url originale il 23 settembre ...
Ottaviano Riario (September 1479 – 1533) was a condotierro who was Lord of Imola and Forli, succeeding Girolamo Riario in 1488. He was also the Archbishop of Viterbo from 1506. Ottaviano Riario was the eldest son of Girolamo Riario and Caterina Sforza, the Count and Countess of Forli and the rulers of Romagna. He was made Lord of Forli after the assassination of his father in 1488, but he ...
