Starting thus, Sarrazin speedily obtained employment from Cardinal Aldobrandini at the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, where he won the friendship of Domenichino, with whom he afterwards worked on the high altar of Sant ' Andrea della Valle.

William Kent also added a cascade ( a symbolic grotto ), inspired by the upper cascade of the gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini.

There were also the academies of the " Intrepidi " ( 1560 ), the " Animosi " ( 1576 ), and the " Illuminati " ( 1598 ); this last, founded by the Marchesa Isabella Aldobrandini Pallavicino.

Clement VIII ( 1592 – 1605 ), Cardinal Aldobrandini since 1585, changed the policy and stood against Philip, after his military defeat by the English.

** Gioachino Rossini, Adina, revision by Gherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini ( 1826 )

The Aldobrandini chapel was designed by Giacomo della Porta but it is Carlo Maderno that completed della Porta's project ( after 1602 ).

The monument to the parents of Pope Clement VIII, Salvestro Aldobrandini and Luisa Dati, is by Giacomo della Porta.

By late 1616, Domenichino had designed the coffered ceiling with The Assumption of the Virgin in Santa Maria in Trastevere ; and he had begun a cycle of ten frescoes depicting the Life of Apollo in a garden pavilion of the Villa Aldobrandini ( Belvedere ) in Frascati, where he was assisted by Giovanni Battista Viola, a Bolognese artist who, like Domenichino himself, was a pioneer in the development of classicistic landscape painting.

While pope Clement was born from a Florentine family residing in Urbino, his family was allied by marriage to the Emilia-Romagna and the Farnese, since Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma had married Margherita Aldobrandini.

In later years, Albani developed a mutual, though respectful, rivalry with the more successful Guido Reni, who was also heavily patronized by the Aldobrandini, and under whom Albani had worked under at the chapel of the Palazzo del Quirinale.

In a poetry contest held by the Cardinal Giorgio Cinthio Aldobrandini of Rome, Isabella Andreini attained second place, only behind the Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso.

He was educated by the Jesuits in their colleges at Loreto and Padua, and is supposed by some to have joined their order ; the more usual opinion, however, is that he was dissuaded from doing so by Cardinal Aldobrandini.

Other Italian gardens with water organs were at Pratolino, near Florence ( c. 1575 ), Isola de Belvedere, Ferrara ( before 1599 ), Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome ( built by Luca Biagi in 1598, restored 1990 ), Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati ( 1620 ), one of the Royal Palaces at Naples ( 1746 ), Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome ( 1758 – 9 ).

The large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary has been assembled since the 16th century by the Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini families now united through marriage and descent under the simplified surname Doria Pamphilj.

* 4th Gallery: bust of Olimpia Aldobrandini by Algardi ; St John the Baptist by Caravaggio ; Christ in the temple by Mazzolino.

* Salone Aldobrandini: antique sculptures and marble reliefs by Duquesnoy.

Also known as Belvedere for its charming location overlooking the whole valley up to Rome, it was rebuilt on the order of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, Pope Clement VIII's nephew over a pre-existing edifice built by the Vatican prelate Alessandro Rufini in 1550.

The princely family is currently represented by Prince Camillo Aldobrandini ( b. 1945 ), whose heir is Don Clemente Aldobrandini ( b. 1982 ).

* Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini ( 1571-1621 ), raised to the cardinalate 1593 by Clement VIII.

* Original 1922 Almanach de Gotha ( edited by Justice Perthes ) entry for the Borghese family ( of which the Aldobrandini are a branch-see bottom of p288 ), link to the original universally-recognised genealogical reference document, with details of family honours

Pope Clement VIII ( 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605 ), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was Pope from 30 January 1592 to 3 March 1605.

* January 30 – Pope Clement VIII ( born Ippolito Aldobrandini ) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.

But Pietro Aldobrandini, the leader of the Italian party among the cardinals, allied with the French cardinals and brought about the election of Alessandro against the express wish of King Philip III of Spain.

He mentions that Cardinal Aldobrandini was raising an army there and calls him also Clement VIII, perhaps in anticipation of later events.

The cool hills of Frascati gained the Villa Aldobrandini ( 1592 ); the Villa Falconieri and the Villa Mondragone.

Between 1610 – 13 Frescobaldi began to work for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini.

He remained in his service until after the death of Cardinal Aldobrandini in February 1621.

In addition to his duties at the Basilica and the Aldobrandini establishment, Frescobaldi took pupils and occasionally worked at other churches.

The result is one of the series of great 17th century villas with water-play structures in the hills surrounding the Roman Campagna, such as the Villa Lante, the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Villas Aldobrandini and Torlonia in Frascati.

With the support of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi, the maggiordomo to Cardinal Aldobrandini and later Gregory XV, and Giovanni ’ s brother Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi, Domenichino obtained further commissions in Rome.

Rome, under Clement VIII Aldobrandini ( 1592 – 1605 ) was exhibiting some degree of administrative stability and renewed artistic patronage.

The tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, decorated with imagery of the Grim Reaper, is also in the church.

Aldobrandini, a relative of the pope, took possession of Ferrara in the pontiff's name.

Born in Terni in Umbria — a region of Italy at that time part of the Papal States — he studied in Perugia then moved to Rome where he served as secretary of cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, nephew of pope Clement VIII.

The husband of Margherita Aldobrandini, niece of Pope Clement VIII, Ranuccio, the son of a Portuguese infanta, was considered as a potential monarch of Portugal when his childless great-uncle King Henry I died.

He married Donna Margarita Aldobrandini daughter of Don Giovanni Francesco Aldobrandini, Prince of Carpineto and his wife the heiress Donna Olimpia Aldobrandini, Princess Campinelli on 7 May 1600 in Rome, St. Sixtus.

The Athenians would have to hold out at Marathon for the time being, although they were reinforced by the full muster of 1, 000 hoplites from the small city of Plataea ; a gesture which did much to steady the nerves of the Athenians, and won unending Athenian gratitude to Plataea.

McKinley's victory won him the gratitude of labor elements in both major parties, and he won election to Congress later that year.

His indefatigable work as archivist in the time when Napoleon was transferring so many treasures to Paris won him the gratitude of later scholars.

It had won the gratitude of the family of the Grand Duchy of Baden as a first important ally in southern Germany, and the Smaller German Solution had become popular throughout the nation.

He cured a young Bhotia boy for dropsy and this won him the gratitude of the boy ’ s father, a trader from the Johar valley, Deb Singh Rawat.

Fouché was careful to temper Napoleon's more arbitrary actions, which at times won him the gratitude even of the royalists.

His activities won the king's lifelong gratitude.

His energetic campaign against George II and his government won the gratitude of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, who left him £ 20, 000 as a mark of her appreciation.

His intervention averted almost certain financial demise and won the everlasting gratitude of a generation of skiers.

On Thames & Hudson ’ s tenth anniversary, the UK publishing industry magazine, The Bookseller, described the company as ‘ neither wedded to eclecticism nor dedicated to mass appeal, has produced some of the most ambitious picture books ever published ... and have sold them in a number which ten years ago would have been considered improbable and at prices which have won the surprised gratitude of thousands of readers .’

The magnanimity shown by Cyrus won him praise and gratitude from those he spared.