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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.
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 ...
Cosimo III de' Medici: 14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723 23 May 1670 – 31 October 1723 Marguerite Louise d'Orléans 17 April 1661 Louvre 3 children Medici: Son of Ferdinando II Gian Gastone de' Medici: 24 May 1671 – 9 July 1737 31 October 1723 – 9 July 1737 Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg 2 July 1697 Düsseldorf no issue Medici ...
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 .
He ushered him into the marriage as the other Tuscan princes, Francesco Maria de' Medici and Gian Gastone de' Medici, were sickly and unlikely to produce children. [49] The main suitors were: Violante of Bavaria , a Bavarian princess, Isabel Luisa of Portugal (the heiress-apparent of Portugal), and the Elector Palatine's daughters.
The Medici ruled the Grand Duchy from its inception under the builder Cosimo I until 1737, with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici. The Medici produced four popes of the Catholic Church— Pope Leo X (1513–1521), Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), Pope Pius IV (1559–1565) [ 5 ] and Pope Leo XI (1605)—and two queens of France— Catherine ...
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