Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
FOIX, GASTON de. - Duke of Nemours, born in 1489 to John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, and Mary of Orléans, sister of Louis XII, died at Ravenna on 11 April 1512.
FOLIGNO, DIOCESE OF - Meeting of St Anne and St Joachim, fresco by Ottaviano Nelli (1424) - Palazzo Trinci, Chapel.At the age of twenty-two he took command of the French troops engaged against the "Holy League" promoted by Julius II. In February 1512, through swift movements, he succeeded in driving the Spanish army from Bologna (5 February) and retaking Brescia from the Venetians (19 February). On Easter Day 1512, near Ravenna, in a very bloody battle, he defeated the Spaniards but was killed in the pursuit.
BIBL.: F. Guicciardini, Storia d'Italia, X, 4; Pastor, III, pp. 672-74; E. Gebhart, Les guerres d'Italie. Charles VIII et Louis XII, in E. Lavisse et A. Rambaud, Histoire générale, 2nd ed., IV, Paris n.d., pp. 67-75. Vittorio E. Giuntella
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“FOIX, GASTON DE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 873. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/foix-gaston-de.
