Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the “arbiter of Italy” by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.
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Was a daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Maria Maddalena of Austria. A patron of the arts, she married Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria in 1646. They were the parents of Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress.
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Artist: Petrus Angelus
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Ferdinando II de’ Medici 1610-1670 was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621-1670. He was the eldest child of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.
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Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother
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Francesco I was the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, ruling from 1574 until his death in 1587. He was a member of the House of Medici.
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Born in Mantua, he was the eldest son of Duke Vincenzo I and Eleonora de’ Medici.
Francesco became Duke upon his father’s death on 9 February 1612. He died at Mantua on 22 December 1612 without male heirs. He was succeeded by his brother Ferdinand; however, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, the father of Francesco’s wife Margaret of Savoy, disputed this, leading to the War of the Montferrat Succession (1613–1617).
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Ferdinando II de’ Medici was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria. His 49-year rule was punctuated by the beginning of Tuscany’s long economic decline.
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The Florentine banking family of the Gondi were prominent financial partners of the Medici. Simone de Gieri Gondi held extensive lands around Valcava, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, where the church of S. Cresci, and a chapel which belonged to the Gondi (S. Margherita, formerly S. Martino) bore the Gondi arms. Simone de Gieri had seven children, one of whom was Silvestro Gondi whose son Simone de Silvestro Gondi was the first of the Gondi to be the Grand Prior of the Republic of Florence.
Date:1351
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Grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de’ Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.
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