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  2. Pazzi conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The Pazzi conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi) was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence. On 26 April 1478 there was an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed.

  3. House of Medici - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Medici family tree - Wikipedia

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    Medici (1488–1495) Ginevra de' Medici m. Giovanni degli Albizzi: Ippolito de' Medici (1511–1535) Cardinal) Pierfrancesco de' Medici (the Younger) (1487–1525) m. Maria Soderini: Laudomia de' Medici m. Francesco Salviati: Vincenzo de' Medici: Lorenzo de' Medici: Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553) Cardinal: Lorenzo Salviati (1492–1539 ...

  5. Girolamo Riario - Wikipedia

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    Girolamo Riario (1443 – 14 April 1488) was Lord of Imola (from 1473) and Forlì (from 1480). He served as Captain General of the Church under his uncle Pope Sixtus IV.He was one of the organisers of the failed 1478 Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, the rulers of Florence, and was assassinated 10 years later by members of the Forlivese Orsi family.

  6. Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Michelangelo and the Medici - Wikipedia

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    The Medici sixty-year reign came to an end under the reign of Piero Medici. [7] In the same year, the Medici were expelled from Florence as the result of the rise of Girolamo Savonarola. Michelangelo left the city before the end of the political upheaval, moving to Venice and then to Bologna, [6] where he stayed for more than a year.

  8. Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Carlo de' Medici - Wikipedia

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    Born in Florence, he was the illegitimate son of Cosimo de' Medici (the Elder) and a slave-woman named Maddalena, who was said to have been purchased in Venice. [a]Maddalena is noted to have been a Circassian slave bought in Venice as a "certified virgin" [13] in 1427, the Venetian slave traders being important participators in the Black Sea slave trade at the time.