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(Encyclopedia) Medici, Giuliano de' dā mĕˈdĭchē, Ital. māˈdēchē [key], 1479–1516, duke of Nemours (1515–16); younger son of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo il Magnifico) and brother of Pope Leo X. He enter...

(Encyclopedia) Medici, Ippolito de' dā mĕˈdĭchē, Ital. māˈdēchē [key], 1511–35, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church; an illegitimate son of Giuliano de' Medici, duke of Nemours. Pope Clement VII, head ...

(Encyclopedia) de Duve, Christian (Christian Renē Maria Joseph de Duve), 1917–2013, Belgian cell biologist, b. England, M.D., Catholic Univ. of Louvain, 1941. He joined the faculty at Louvain in 1947 and at the R...

(Encyclopedia) Bourbon bo͞orbôNˈ [key], European royal family, originally of France; a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty (see Capetians). One branch of the Bourbons occupies the modern Spanish throne, and othe...

(Encyclopedia) Launay, vicomte de: see Girardin, Delphine Gay de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Néthou, Pic de: see Aneto, Pico de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Martin de Porres: see Porres, Saint Martin de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Medici, Catherine de': see Catherine de' Medici. ...

(Encyclopedia) De Bruyn, Cornelis: see Bruyn, Cornelis de. ...

(Encyclopedia) De Witt, Jan: see Witt, Jan de.