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Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 - 1 August 1464) was an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance. His power derived from his wealth as a banker, and inter-marriage with other powerful and rich families. [1]
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Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, "king in all but name" of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan rival), Florence was a republic; it should not have had a king. Cosimo was a banker, not a prince, though even Pius had to concede that Cosimo.
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Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530).
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Cosimo II, (born May 12, 1590—died Feb. 28, 1621), fourth grand duke of Tuscany (1609-20), who closed down the Medici family's practice of banking and commerce, which it had pursued for four centuries.
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Cosimo II de 'Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 to 1621. During most of his eleven years of reign, he mostly delegated the administration of Tuscany to his ministers. He is known in particular for having been the patron of Galileo Galilei, his tutor in his youth. Cosimo II was the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I.
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There were three branches of Medicis that successfully gained power - the line of Chiarissimo II, the line of Cosimo (known as Cosimo the Elder) and the descendants of his brother, who went on to rule as grand dukes. The House of Medici produced 4 popes - Leo X (1513-1521), Clement VII (1523-1534), Pius IV (1559-1565) and Leo XI (1605).
'Portrait of Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de' Medici', 17th century. Artist Justus
Cosimo I de' Medici In 1537 the young Cosimo de' Medici (1519-1574) was plucked from relative obscurity in the Tuscan countryside to lead Florence after the assassination of his cousin Duke Alessandro de' Medici (1511?-1537).
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Cosimo de' Medici, (born Sept. 27, 1389, Florence—died Aug. 1, 1464, Careggi, near Florence), founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537.
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The last Grand Duke of the Medici family is remembered as a sensitive collector of gems and bronze statues but also, as in the case of Cosimo II, it is the promotion of a popular work on the museum collection to offer a place in the "compendious history" skilfully outlined by Lanzi, i.e., the Museum Florentinum by Anton Francesco Gori (1691-1757), a work in six volumes published between.
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Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 - 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine . For the majority of his twelve-year reign, he delegated the administration of Tuscany to his ministers.
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Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 - 31 October 1723 [1]) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
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Medici family - Grand Dukes, Tuscany, Renaissance: Alessandro's death did not terminate the Medici family's power in Florence. A younger branch of the family, descendants of the Lorenzo who had been the brother of Cosimo the Elder, now came forward. Cosimo de' Medici (1519-74), great-great-grandson of Lorenzo, became duke of Florence, then grand duke of Tuscany (1569), and reigned as.
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Beginning in 1434 with the rise to power of Cosimo de Medici (or Cosimo the Elder), the family's patronage of the arts and humanities made Florence into the cradle of the Renaissance,.
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Francesco de' Medici (16 October 1614 - 25 July 1634) was the fourth son of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany and his wife, Maria Maddalena of Austria. [1] He died unmarried. Biography Prince Francesco was born at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the capital of his father's grand duchy.
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Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 - 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until 1621. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Christine of Lorraine.He married Maria Magdalena of Austria and had eight children. Galileo Galilei was his childhood tutor.. For the most of his eleven-year reign, he delegated the administration of Tuscany to his.