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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.
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 ...
The Medici were a powerful and influential Florentine family from the 13th to 17th century. There were four popes who were related to the Medici. [2]Pope Leo X (December 11, 1475 – December 1, 1521), born Giovanni de' Medici, was pope from 1513 to his death.
Less a corridor, more a private walking trail through the center of Florence, the 750-meter (2,460-foot) space was designed for the ruling Medici dynasty in 1565 by artist and architect Giorgio ...
In his book "The History of My Dynasty," Ottaviano de' Medici points to Vatican law at the time and claims that either the Medici Princes of Ottaiano or the Veronese Medici should have inherited the Grand Duchy of Tuscany upon the death of last of the Medici Grand Dukes, Gian Gastone de' Medici, [4] instead of the Habsburg-Lorraine line, since both Medici branches were closer descendants [5 ...
The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a 15th-century Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It was built for the Medici family, who dominated the politics of the Republic of Florence. It is now the seat of the administration of the Metropolitan City of Florence and a ...
Detail of the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, in the Medici Chapel. Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) had a complicated relationship with the Medici family, who were for most of his lifetime the effective rulers of his home city of Florence. The Medici rose to prominence as Florence's preeminent bankers.
Cosimo's family, the Medici dynasty, had been ruling the Florentine Republic, the predecessor of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, since 1434, first as Lords of Florence and later as Dukes. [2] The title of Grand Duke, was in fact the second title of recognition within the Tuscan politics given by a Pope to the Medici family, the first being that of ...