It has been surmised that the Pope's refusal was, in part, motivated by the fact that when Princess Giovanna of Savoy wed King Boris III of Bulgaria in 1930, the couple had undertaken to raise their future children as Roman Catholics, but had baptized them in the Orthodox faith in deference to Bulgaria's state religion.

* 1907 – Giovanna of Italy, tsaritsa of Bulgaria ( d. 2000 )

The last Bulgarian tsaritsa was Giovanna of Italy, the wife of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria.

Although it would eventually prove to be of no assistance to Italy, Giovanna duly married Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria in Assisi in October 1930, in a Roman Catholic ceremony, attended by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

At a second ceremony in Sofia, Bulgaria, Giovanna ( who herself was daughter of a Roman Catholic father and a born Orthodox mother ) was married in an Eastern Orthodox Church ceremony, bringing her into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.

Campbell was born Beatrice Stella Tanner in Kensington, London, to John Tanner and Maria Luigia Giovanna, daughter of Count Angelo Romanini.

He's married with Giovanna, they have two children, Francesca Romana and Angelo.

We meet their parents, Angelo ( Andrea Tidona ) and Adriana ( Adriana Asti ), their older sister Giovanna ( Lidia Vitale ), and their kid sister Francesca ( Valentina Carnelutti ).

Vannozza dei Cattanei ( Giovanna de Candia, contessa dei Cattanei ; 13 July 1442 – 24 November 1518 ) was an Italian noblewoman from the House of Candia, who was one of the many mistresses of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, future Pope Alexander VI.

Born in 1468 at Canino, Latium ( then part of the Papal States ), Alessandro Farnese was the oldest son of Pier Luigi I Farnese, Signore di Montalto ( 1435 – 1487 ) and his wife Giovanna Caetani, a member of the Caetani family which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII.

They had a daughter, Joan ( Giovanna ), who married to John III the Good, duke of Brittany.

Married Giovanna of Sanseverino, by whom he had four daughters, including his heiress, Marguerite, who in her own turn married John of Luxembourg, Sire of Beauvois.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

His treatment of Giovanna d ' Aragona, who had married into that family, drew further negative comment from Venice.

At the age of thirty he married with Nicoleta Sorkočević ( Sorgo )(+ 1644 ) who bore him three sons, Frano ( Francesco ), Matheo ( Mato ), Šiško ( Segismondo ) and two daughters, Maria ( Mara ) Gondola and Dziva ( Giovanna ).

His mother, Giovanna ( née Bonelli ), was an Italian house-keeper who cleaned rooms in a hotel and worked as a cook.

Italy had had an early tradition of the salon ; the courtisan Tullia d ' Aragona held a salon already in the 16th century, and Giovanna Dandolo became known as a patron and gatherer of artists as wife of Pasquale Malipiero, the doge in Venice in 1457-1462 ; the real pioneers were instead the abdicated Queen Christina of Sweden and the princess Colonna, Marie Mancini, who rivaled as salon hostesses in 17th century Rome.

* Giovanna who lasted less than a week, replaced by

Two years later he married Polissena Sforza, Francesco I's illegitimate daughter ; they had two children: a son, Galeotto, born in 1442 and who only lived a few months, and a daughter, Giovanna, born in 1444 and later Duchess of Camerino by marriage.

One of the modern criticisms of the film is that Bergman, who was 33 at the time she made the movie, was nearly twice as old as the real Joan of Arc ; the Swedish actress would later play her ( at age 39 ) in a 1954 Italian film, Giovanna d ' Arco al rogo ( Joan at the Stake ).

Suanna Wallumrød has cooperated with exceptional baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi, who has previously made herself known with a variety of ECM recordings.

Dorset's best-known mistress was Venetian ballerina Giovanna Zanerini, who was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, and used the stage name Giovanna Baccelli.

His firstborn son Çezar Arianiti ( Cesare Comnino Arianiti ) had one daughter named Giovanna Comminata, who lived in Naples and was married to patrician Paulo Brancaccio.

The original Giovanna was Erminia Frezzolini, who had previously appeared in Verdi's ( and Solera's ) I Lombardi alla prima crociata two years earlier.

* Maria Cristina Giusta Elena Giovanna ( born 10 September 1933 at Miramare Castle ), who married on 29 January 1967 HRH Prince Casimiro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, descended from Spanish princes ( of the house of Bourbon or Borbon ) ruling in Sicily, and has issue two sons and two daughters.

Lapa was about forty years old when she prematurely gave birth to twin daughters, Catherine and Giovanna.

Giovanna was handed over to a wet-nurse, and presently died, whereas Catherine was nursed by her mother, and developed into a healthy child.

She was two years old when Lapa had her 25th child, another daughter named Giovanna.

He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto.

Chiaramonti was born at Cesena, the son of Count Scipione Chiaramonti ; his mother, Giovanna, was the daughter of the Marquess Ghini and was related to the Braschi family.

The general consensus among scholars is that Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in the Val di Greve, south of Florence, Italy, the son of Piero Andrea di Bernardo da Verrazzano and Fiametta Capelli ; some alternative theories have been elaborated: e. g., a certain French scholarship assumed that Verrazzano was born in Lyon, France, the son of Alessandro di Bartolommeo da Verrazano and Giovanna Guadagni .. Whatever the case, Verrazzano always considered himself to be Florentine and was considered a Florentine by his contemporaries as well.

Correggio's first major commission ( February – September 1519 ) was the ceiling decoration of the private dining salon of the mother-superior ( abbess Giovanna Piacenza ) of the convent of St Paul called the Camera di San Paolo at Parma.

Frank Sinatra continued his legendary career, and was joined by Mario Lanza, Perry Como, Dean Martin ( Dino Crocetti ), Tony Bennett ( Benedetto ), Frankie Laine ( Francesco LoVecchio ), Vic Damone ( Vito Farinola ), Don Cornell ( Luigi Varlaro ), Bobby Darin ( Walden Cassotto ), Johnny Desmond ( Giovanni De Simone ), Bobby Rydell ( Ridarelli ), Julius La Rosa, Connie Francis ( Concetta Franconero ), Joanie James ( Giovanna Babbo ), Madonna and a host of others.

Giacomo della Chiesa was born at Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy, third son of Marchese Giuseppe della Chiesa and his wife Marchesa Giovanna Migliorati.

To the north-west on the Capo di Sorrento is another villa, the so-called Bagni della Regina Giovanna, with baths, and in the bay to the south-west was the villa of Pollius Felix, the friend of Statius, which he describes in Silvae ii.

Margherita of Savoy ( Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna ; 20 November 1851 – 4 January 1926 ), was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign ( 1878 – 1900 ) of her husband, Umberto I.

At Robert's death in 1343, he was succeeded by his 16-year-old granddaughter Giovanna I of Naples ( Joanna ), his son Charles having predeceased him in 1328.

Giovanna was already betrothed to her cousin, the 15-year-old Andrew of Hungary, son of the Angevin king of Hungary, Charles Robert.

" On June 29, 1620 the son of Tommaso Aniello d ' Amalfi Cicco and Antonia Gargano was baptized by me Don Giovanni Matteo Peta, and lifted from the sacred font by Agostino Monaco and Giovanna de Lieto.

In 1592 he was married to Giovanna Bacciadonne, daughter of the count of Galerata.

Guido De Marco was born in Valletta to Emanuele and Giovanna ( née Raniolo ) De Marco.