In 1728, the Carbognano branch ( Colonna di Sciarra ) of the Colonna family added the name Barberini to its family name when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, daughter of the last male Barberini to hold the name and grand-daughter of Maffeo Barberini ( son of Taddeo Barberini ).

Following his accession to the papacy, Urban VIII is reported to have said, " Your luck is great to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope, Cavaliere ; but ours is much greater to have Cavalier Bernini alive in our pontificate.

For Pope Urban VIII's great-nephew, see Maffeo Barberini ( 1631-1685 ).

Pope Urban VIII ( baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644 ), born Maffeo Barberini, was pope from 1623 to 1644.

Circa 1598 painting of Maffeo Barberini at age 30 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Caravaggio.

Maffeo Barberini was born in 1568 into the wealthy merchant Barberini family in Florence, Italy.

* Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

Henceforth the papal policy towards France became more friendly, and somewhat later the Barberini were rehabilitated when the son of Taddeo Barberini, Maffeo Barberini, married Olimpia Giustiniani, a niece of Innocent X.

It then passed to the Barberini family collection ( which also included sculptures such as the Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo ) where it remained for some two hundred years, being one of the treasures of Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ).

** Papal Conclave of 1623: Pope Urban VIII ( Maffeo Barberini ) succeeds Pope Gregory XV as the 235th pope.

The Barberini Faun ( located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany ) is a Hellenistic marble statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian ( the Castel Sant ' Angelo ) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ).

** Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan.

Niccolò and his brother Maffeo set off on a trading voyage, before Marco was born.

In 1260, Niccolò and Maffeo were residing in Constantinople when they foresaw a political change ; they liquidated their assets into jewels and moved away.

In 1269, Niccolò and Maffeo returned to Venice, meeting Marco for the first time.

Niccolo and Maffeo Marco Polo | Polo remitting a letter from Kubilai to Pope Gregory X in 1271.

In 1601, Maffeo, through the influence of an uncle who had become apostolic protonotary, was able to secure from Clement VIII the appointment as papal legate to the court of King Henry IV of France.

* 1266 – Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, brother and uncle of Marco Polo reach Kublai Khan's capital Khanbaliq ( now Beijing ) in China, setting the stage for Marco's famous expedition starting five years later.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

The first full and faithful rendering of the poem in an Anglic language is the Scots translation by Gavin Douglas — his Eneados, completed in 1513, which also included Maffeo Vegio's supplement.

* Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, father and uncle of Marco Polo, reach Kublai Khan's capital Khanbaliq ( now Beijing ) in China, setting the stage for Marco's famous expedition 5 years later.

The box set included a booklet containing a lengthy essay on the history and impact of the band by Lois Maffeo, as well as rare photos of members Calvin, Heather and Bret.

The revolving door nature of the ensemble led to collaborations with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lois Maffeo and director / writer / performer Miranda July.

Image: Caravaggio Maffeo Barberini. jpg | Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

In 1633, Pope Urban VIII ( Maffeo Barberini ) commissioned from Cortona a large fresco painting for the ceiling of the Barberini family palace ; the Palazzo Barberini.

Thereafter, the famously nepotistic family, headed by Maffeo Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ), treated the comune as a principality in its own right.

Later the Barberini reconciled with the papacy when Pope Innocent X elevated Taddeo's son, Carlo Barberini to the cardinalate and his brother Maffeo Barberini married a niece of the Pope and reclaimed the title, Prince of Palestrina.

Beyond the sacristy, the room where she died in 1380 was reconstructed here by Antonio Barberini in 1637.

Propelled by the Borghese and Barberini patronage, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his studio garnered most of the major Roman sculptural commissions.

With the death of the Barberini Pope Urban VIII in 1644 and the accession of the Pamphilj Pope Innocent X, the Barberini family and their favorite artist, Bernini, fell into disrepute.

In 1627 Anna Colonna, daughter of Filippo I Colonna, married Taddeo Barberini of the family Barberini ; nephew of Pope Urban VIII.

He moved to Rome in 1619 and started working for Carlo Maderno, his distant relative, at St. Peter's and then also at the Palazzo Barberini.

Early in their careers they had all worked at the same time at the Palazzo Barberini, initially under Carlo Maderno and on his death, under Bernini.

The collection contains three pages of the Shahnameh, an epic book of poems by Ferdowsi in Persian, and a Syrian metalwork named the Barberini Vase.

Its last representants Enrico ( died September 12, 1643 ) and Francesco ( 1592-September 21, 1650 ) sold Monterotondo to the Barberini in 1641.

Later Rospigliosi worked closely with Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ), a Barberini Pope, where he worked in the Papal diplomacy as nuncio to Spain, among other posts.

During the reign of Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ), who was hostile to the Barberini and their adherents, Rospigliosi continued his appointment as papal nuncio to the court of Spain.

He practiced nepotism on a grand scale ; various members of his family were enormously enriched by him, so that it seemed to contemporaries as if were establishing a Barberini dynasty.

He also bestowed upon their brother, Taddeo Barberini, the honorific title Prince of Palestrina ; Palestrina being the comune owned by the Barberini family.

For the purposes of making cannon and the baldacchino in St Peters, massive bronze girders were pillaged from the portico of the Pantheon leading to the well known lampoon: quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini, " what the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.

Artistic and architectural commissions included the family palace in Rome, the Palazzo Barberini, the college of the Propaganda Fide, the Fontana del Tritone in Piazza Barberini, the cathedra in St Peters and other prominent structures in the city.