PAUL III, POPE. - Alessandro Farnese, b. at Canino in Feb. 1468, belonged to the noble Farnese family, with possessions on Lake Bolsena and to the south of Viterbo. Having received a humanistic education in Rome and Florence, he was created cardinal in 1493 by Alexander VI (who had illicit relations with his sister Giulia). He administered the sees of Corredo, Montefiascone, Mantua (where his vicar general was Bartolomeo Guidiccioni, later a cardinal) and Benevento; however, he received in