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Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 25 May 1671 – 9 July 1737) was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany. He was the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans . [ 2 ]
Giuliano Dami (14 September 1683 – 5 April 1750) was the favourite and valet (Aiutante di Camera) of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1723 – 1737). He is known for the "magnetic influence" [5] he exercised on the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, and for his relationship with him.
Handel met with Gian Gastone de' Medici, who invited him to Pratolino. Agostino Steffani , Johann Mattheson , Georg Friedrich Händel , Nicolaus Adam Strungk , Johann Philipp Förtsch , Georg Bronner , Johann Philipp Krieger , Georg Caspar Schürmann , and Johann Georg Conradi composed Singspiele or baroque opera 's for the Hamburg opera.
As Grand Prince Ferdinando, Gian Gastone's elder brother, predeceased Cosimo III, Gian Gastone succeeded his father in 1723. Gian Gastone for most of his life, kept to his bed and acted in an unregal manner, rarely appearing to his subjects, to the extent that, at times, he had been thought dead. Gian Gastone would repeal his father's puritan ...
Upon Gian Gastone's death on 9 July 1737, Francis Stephen ceded Lorraine and became grand duke of Tuscany. In 1738, Charles VI sent the young couple to make their formal entry into Tuscany. The Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine was erected at the Porta Galla in celebration, where it remains today. Their stay in Florence was brief.
Franz Ferdinand Richter, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1737 (Palazzo Pitti) Francesco Maria Veracini; engraving by John June, after a painting by Richter Franz Ferdinand Richter (c.1693, Ebersdorf , near Breslau - after 1737, Florence ) was a German Baroque painter who worked in Italy .
July 26 – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, French Catholic priest, bishop and cardinal (b. 1657) July 9 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671) July 26 – Johan Cronman, Swedish general (b. 1662) July 27 – Maria Maddalena Martinengo, Italian nun (b. 1687) September 27 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy ...
Gastone Prendato (1910–1980), Italian professional football player and coach; Gastone Ventura (1906–1981), Italian aristocrat; Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671–1737), the seventh and last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany; Gastone (Petrolini), Italian character created by Ettore Petrolini in his homonymous comedy