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Portrait of Mercurio Bua by Lorenzo Lotto


Flag given in 1510 to Mercurio Bua by Emperor Maximilian I. It features a double-headed eagle, symbol of both Byzantium and the Holy Roman Empire, the Cross of Burgundy and four "B"s or firesteels, used in the Palaiologos arms, but also linked to the House of Habsburg's Order of the Golden Fleece.

Mercurio Bua, originally Maurikios Bua, (Nafplion 1478 — Treviso 1542?) was a famed condottiero (stratioti), originally from Nafplion in the Peloponnese, and a descendant of the Albanian Bua family. According to others he was Greek with origins in Epirus. Due to his martial prowess, he was eventually made Count of Aquino and Roccasecca (of the Holy Roman Empire). In 1519, he married the Greek Maria Boccali, the daughter of Niccolò Boccali. Maria died in 1524 leaving one son with the name Flavio. She was buried in Santa Maria di Treviso. In 1525 Mercurio married Elizabeth, daughter of Alvise Balbi. With her Mercurio had four children: Elena Maria, Curio, Polyxena and Alexander. Elizabeth died in or before 1528 (Ricciardi, p.96) .

M. Bua died in Treviso (Italy) between 1527 and 1562 were earlier he served as Captain of a unit of 50 soldiers. He is buried in Santa Maria Maggiore in the same city. In 1562 a marble monument was erected on his tomb, made by Antonio Lombardo. In 1637 the following inscription was made on the monument:

"Mercurio Bua Comiti E. Principibus Peloponnesi
 Epirotarum Equitum Ductori,
Anno Salu. MDCXXXVII."

Which means "To Count Mercurio Bua, Prince of Peloponnesus, Leader of the Epirote Horsemen, Year of our Salvation, 1637". The monument also lists some of his military career.

References

  1. Fossi, Gloria; Bussagli, Marco; Reiche, Mattia (2000). Italian art: painting, sculpture, architecture from the origins to the present day. Giunti Editore Firenze Italy. pp. 182–3. ISBN 8809017714. {{cite book}}: C1 control character in |pages= at position 5 (help)
  2. Sathas K.N., Hellenika Anekdota, Athens, 1867, vol. 1, Original in a manuscript written by Ioannes (Tzanes) Coroneos, contemporary of M. Bua. It was studied and copied at the library of the King of Italy between 1856-1861 by various Greek researchers and published by K. N. Sathas in 1867.
  3. Ricciardi Maria Luisa (1989) Lorenzo Lotto: Il Gentiluome della Galleria Borghese, Artibus et Historiae, vol. 10, No 19, pp.85-106. Available through JSTOR.
    Page 96: "M. Bua, ... greco di origine epirota".
  4. Sathas K. (1867), Andragathemata of Bua, by Tzanes Coroneos, Hellenika Anekdota, vol.1, p.123, in Greek language
  5. Edward Hutton: Venice and Venetia. Read Books, 2009. Page 229. ISBN 1444649922.

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