BORGHESE  , a

noble Italian family of Sienese origin, first mentioned in 1238, a member of which, Marcantonio Borghese, settled in Rome and was the father of Camillo Borghese (1550-162o), elected pope under the title of Paul V . (1605) . Paul created his nephew prince of Vivero on the 17th of November 1609, and Philip III. of Spain conferred the title of prince of Sulmona on him in 161o . The family took its place among the higher Roman nobility by the marriage of the prince's son Paolo with Olimpia, heiress of the Aldobrandini family, in 1614 . In 1803 Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese (b . 1775), married Pauline, sister of the emperor Napoleon, and widow of General Leclerc . In 18o6 he was made duke of Guastalla, and for some years acted as governor of the Piedmontese and Genoese provinces . After the fall of Napoleon he fixed his residence at Florence, where he died in 1832 . The Borghese palace at Rome is one of the most magnificent buildings in the city, and contained a splendid gallery of pictures, most of which have been transferred to the Villa Borghese outside the Porto del Popolo, now Villa Umberto I., the property of the Italian government . See A. von Reumont, Geschichte der Stadt Rom, iii . 6o5, 609 . 617, &c.; Almanach de Gotha (Gotha, 1902) ; J .

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Douglas, The Principal Noble Families of Rome (Rome, 1905) .