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The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.
[1]: 252 [2]: 128 He made Giovanni della Rovere, who was not a priest, prefect of Rome, and arranged for him to marry into the da Montefeltro family, dukes of Urbino. For Girolamo Riario , also a layman – and who was potentially Pope Sixtus' son and not his nephew – he arranged to buy Imola , a small town in Romagna , with the aim of ...
Lodovico de' Medici (1498–1526) Maria Salviati (1499–1543) Eleanor of Toledo (1522–1562) Cosimo I (1519–1574) Grand Duke 1569–74: Camilla Martelli
Cosimo I de' Medici Coat of arms of House of Medici. In 1569, Cosimo de' Medici had ruled the Duchy of Florence for 32 years. During his reign, Florence purchased the island of Elba from the Republic of Genoa (in 1548), [8] conquered Siena (in 1555) [9] and developed a well-equipped and powerful naval base on Elba.
Historically influential in Florence, the Gheradinis were also featured in Florentine Histories, a book written by Niccolò Machiavelli at the request of the Medicis. [6] In modern times, their name is affiliated with the Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci, as the painting depicts the portrait of Lisa Gherardini. Arms of this family is a quarterly ...
[2] His eldest son, Andreas Fugger , was a merchant in the weaving trade, and was nicknamed "Fugger the Rich" [ 5 ] after buying land and other properties. The Fugger family itemized and inventoried a large number of Asian rugs, an unusual undertaking at the time. [ 6 ]
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (11 August 1667 – 18 February 1743) was an Italian noblewoman who was the last lineal descendant of the main branch of the House of Medici.A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medicis' large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medici villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her ...