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Giovanni Maria da Varano

1481–1527 · 16th century

Giovanni Maria da Varano was lord and from 1515 the first Duke of Camerino in the Marche. A son of Giulio Cesare da Varano, he escaped when Cesare Borgia seized Camerino in 1502 and killed his father and brothers, and he regained the city in 1503 after Borgia's fall. Pope Leo X made him duke, and his daughter Giulia was his heiress.

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Duchy of Camerino

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