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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 (Italian: I Medici) is a historical drama television series created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. The series was produced by Italian companies Lux Vide and Rai Fiction , in collaboration with Spotnitz's Big Light Productions .
The Albizzi family (Italian pronunciation:) was a patrician noble family and were the de facto leaders of an oligarchy of wealthy families that ruled Florence in the second half of the 14th century. They were at the center of the oligarchy from 1382 , in the reaction that followed the Ciompi revolt , to the rise of the Medici in 1434 .
Lodovico de' Medici (1498–1526) Maria Salviati (1499–1543) Eleanor of Toledo (1522–1562) Cosimo I (1519–1574) Grand Duke 1569–74: Camilla Martelli
Catherine de' Medici was born Caterina Maria Romula de' Medici [8] on 13 April 1519 in Florence, Republic of Florence, the only child of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and his wife, Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, the countess of Boulogne.
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours; Garzia de' Medici; Gian Gastone de' Medici; Giancarlo de' Medici; Giovanni de' Medici (cardinal) Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici; Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici; Don Giovanni de' Medici; Giovanni il Popolano; Giuliano de' Medici di Ottajano; Giuliano de' Medici; Giulio de' Medici (died 1600) Giuseppe de' Medici ...
The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior line of the family to lead the city. His assassination at the hands of distant cousin Lorenzaccio caused the title of Duke to pass to Cosimo I de Medici , from the family's junior branch.
The new Pope Leo X was no stranger to Michelangelo, being no other than his old schoolmate Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Since Leo was a Medici, one of the projects that naturally occurred to him was the decoration of the unfinished front of his family's church, San Lorenzo, in Florence. [8]