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MASSIMO, or MASSIMI

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASSIMO, or MASSIMI , a See also:Roman princely See also:family of See also:great antiquity, said to be descended from the See also:ancient Maximi of republican See also:Rome. The name is first mentioned in 1012 in the See also:person of See also:Leo de Maximis, and the family played a considerable See also:part in the See also:history of the See also:city in the See also:middle ages. The See also:brothers Pietro and See also:Francesco Massimi acquired fame by protecting and encouraging the See also:German printer See also:Ulrich See also:Hahn, who came to Rome in 1467. In the 16th See also:century the Massimi were the richest of the Roman nobles. A marquisate was conferred on them in 1544, and the lordship of Arsoli in 1574. To-See also:day there are two branches of the Massimi, viz. the Principi Massimo, descended from Camillo 'Massimiliano (1770-1840), and the See also:dukes of Rignano, descended from Francesco Massimo (1773-1844). One of the sons of the See also:present See also:Prince Camillo Carlo Alberto, See also:Don Fabrizio, married Princess See also:Beatrice, daughter of Don See also:Carlos of See also:Bourbon (See also:duke of See also:Madrid), the pretender to the See also:Spanish See also:throne. The Palazzo Massimo in Rome was built by Baldassare See also:Peruzzi by See also:order of Pietro Massimo, on the ruins of an earlier See also:palace destroyed in the See also:sack of Rome in 1527. See F. See also:Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Rom (See also:Stuttgart, 1880) ; A. von See also:Reumont, Geschichte der Stadt Rom (See also:Berlin, 1868) ; Almanach de See also:Gotha; J. H. See also:Douglas, The See also:Principal See also:Noble Families of Rome (Rome, 1905).

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