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House of Medici
- Pope Clement VIIPope Clement VII was born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici on the 26th of May 1478, exactly one month after his father was stabbed to death on the altar steps…
- Marie de' MediciOn the 26th of April 1575, Maria de' Medici was born inside the Palazzo Pitti of Florence. Her father Francesco I ruled Tuscany as Grand Duke while her…
- Madeleine de La Tour d'AuvergneMadeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne lived for only twenty-one years, yet the daughter she left behind would reshape the history of France.
- Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of UrbinoLorenzo di Piero de' Medici entered the world on the 12th of September 1492 in Florence. His father was Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and his mother was…
- Catherine de' MediciCatherine de' Medici was born on the 13th of April 1519 in Florence, and within a month both her parents were dead. Her mother Madeleine died of puerperal…
- Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' MediciLorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici entered the world on the 4th of August 1463 in Florence. His father Pierfrancesco de' Medici died when Lorenzo and his…
- Republic of FlorenceThe Republic of Florence was born from a single death. In 1115, when Matilda of Tuscany died and left her vast territories without an obvious heir, the…
- Simonetta VespucciSimonetta Vespucci died at twenty-two years old, carried through the streets of Florence in an open coffin so that the city could admire her one last time.
- Lorenzo de' MediciOn Sunday, the 26th of April 1478, Lorenzo de' Medici stood in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore when a group of assassins turned on him and his brother.
- House of MediciThe House of Medici began not in a palace, but in a wool trader's ledger. A family from the agricultural Mugello region north of Florence, first mentioned in…