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Authors: Christopher Hibbert
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Medici, Anna Maria Francesca de’,
née
Anna Maria Francesca of Saxe-Lauenberg,
302–3
Medici, Anna Maria Luisa di Cosimo de’,
see
Anna Maria, Electress Palatine
Medici, Ardingo de’,
30
Medici, Averardo de’,
31
Medici Bank,
see
Bank, Medici
Medici, Bianca di Piero de’,
see
Pazzi, Bianca
Medici, Camilla de’,
née
Martelli,
272–3
Medici, Carlo de’,
illegitimate son of
Cosimo
Pater Patriar
,
40
,
93
,
314
Medici, Caterina di Lorenzo de’, Duchess of Urbino
and later
Queen of France (1519–89),
239
,
280
; birth of,
235
; created Duchess of Urbino,
236
; her marriage,
252
Medici, Christine de’,
née
Christine of Lorraine (1565–1636),
280
,
283
Medici, Clarice de’,
née
Orsini, Lucrezia de’ Medici on,
114–15
; Lorenzo the Magnificent and,
116
,
145–7
; her wedding celebrations,
117–18
; at Pistoia,
145
; and Poliziano,
145
; her temperament,
146
; and her children,
147
,
162
; her death,
147
; and Giovanni’s birth,
202
; and Botticelli’s
Portrait of a Young Woman
,
322
Medici, Clarice di Piero de’,
see
Strozzi, Clarice
Medici, Contessina de’,
née
de’ Bardi,
43
,
47
; marriage,
38
; personality,
39
; Donatello’s bronze head of,
91
Medici, Contessina di Lorenzo de’,
see
Ridolfi, Contessina
Medici, Cosimino di Giovanni de’,
96
Medici, Cosimo de’,
illegitimate son of
Cosimo 1, 266
Medici, Cosimo di Ferdinando de’,
later
Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1620),
281–2
Medici, Cosimo di Giovanni de’.
Pater Patriae
(1389–1464),
32
; imprisoned,
19
,
50
,
51
,
200
; education,
37
; and humanism,
37–8
; his personality,
38
,
41
; his marriage,
38
,
39
; and his slave-girl,
39–40
; and war with Lucca,
42–3
; his friends,
44
,
45–7
; and Filelfo,
48
; and the Albizzi plot,
48
,
49–52
; commissions a library for San Giorgio Maggiore,
54
; in exile,
54–5
; returns to Florence,
58
; banishes his enemies,
58–9
; in politics,
59–60
,
61–3
; his unostentatious behaviour,
60
,
73
; Vespasiano da Bisticci on,
60
,
97–8
; Pius II on,
63
; Guicciardini on,
63
; and Council of Florence,
64
,
65–6
; his interest in philosophy,
68–9
; and Ficino,
68–9
,
77
; his library,
69
,
88
; a generous patron,
69
,
71
,
73
; and Brunelleschi,
70
; and Ghiberti’s reliquary,
70
; his munificence,
73–4
; his new palazzo,
75–6
; his love of country life,
77
; and his villas,
77
,
78
,
316
; and Florence’s foreign policy,
79
,
82–6
; and Francesco Sforza,
82
; the Venetian ambassador on,
85
; and Calixtus III,
86
,
157
; the banker,
86–8
,
104
,
129
: and Pius II,
88
; and Donatello,
91
,
92
; and Filippo Lippi,
93–4
; his respect for artists,
94
; and Fra Angelico,
94
; on painters,
94
; in old age,
94–5
,
96
; and his grandson,
96
; death of,
97
; his funeral,
98
,
101–2
; memorial to,
98
,
319
; in the Magi pageant, III; Gozzoli and, III; Savonarola and,
180
; Leo X on,
261
; Novices’ Chapel, Santa Croce,
313
; and Botticelli’s
Adoration of the Magi
,
320
; and Luca Pitti,
328
; statue to,
331
; and the old sacristy of San Lorenzo,
317
Medici, Cosimo di Ferdinando de’,
later
Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723), his temperament,
287
; his appearance,
288
,
292
,
297
; his marriage,
288–9
,
290
,
291
,
294–5
,
328
; in
I1 Mondo Festeggiante
,
289
; travels abroad,
292
; economic problems,
293
,
296
; a bigot,
297–8
,
306
; punishment under,
298
; levies taxes,
298–9
,
307
; and Grand Prince Ferdinand,
301
; worried and ill,
303–4
; and the Tuscan succession,
305
; his religious zeal,
305–6
; death of,
306
; and the Villa Medici,
318
; and the Cathedral façade,
324
; and the Villa Ambrogiana,
333
Medici, Cosimo di Giovanni de’,
later
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–74),
312
; elected to power in Florence,
257–8
; Cellini on,
258
; and his father,
261–2
; his appearance,
262
; his childhood,
262
; his nature,
262–3
,
267–8
,
270
; Varchi on,
263
; and the
Fuorosciti
,
263–4
; and Charles V,
264
; his marriages,
264
,
273
; his ruthlessness,
264–5
; his ambition,
265–6
; Grand Duke,
266
; creates the Florentine navy,
266–7
; his pleasures,
267
; and his wife,
269
,
272
; the children of,
269
; and the death of his daughter,
269–70
; his austerity,
270
; attempted assassinations of,
270–1
; and his son Francesco,
272
; his mistresses,
272–3
; death of,
273
; his achievements,
273–4
; and his daughter-in-law,
275
; Giambologna’s equestrian statue of,
280
,
331
; and the Giardino dei Semplici,
315
; and his villas,
316
,
330
; and the lions of Florence,
327
; Pitti Palace altered for,
328
; his
Landsknechte
,
329
Medici, Don Giovanni de’,
illegitimate son of
Cosimo 1, 324
Medici, Eleonora de’,
daughter of
Don Garzia of Toledo (1556–76),
277
Medici, Eleonora de’,
née
Eleonora Toledo (1522–62),
264
,
268–9
,
271
,
272
,
328
Medici, Eleonora de’,
née
Gonzaga,
304
Medici, Ferdinando di Cosimo de’, Cardinal,
later
Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549–1609), Grand Duke,
279–80
; his lavish expenditure,
280
; wedding celebrations for,
280–1
; and Ponte Vecchio,
312
; his arms,
313
; and Santa Trinità,
328
; and Bianca Capello,
329
; and Villa Medici, Rome,
330
; erects monuments in Piazza Santa Trinità,
331
Medici, Ferdinando di Cosimo de,
later
Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1610–70), and Galileo,
282
,
317
; his appearance,
283
; his temperament,
283
,
285
; and
Del Cimento
,
284
; his interest in mosaic,
285
; and his brother Gian Carlo,
286
; and his son Cosimo,
287
,
288
; and Marguerite-Louise,
290
,
291
; death of,
293
; and the Grand Ducal Library,
332
Medici, Ferdinando di Cosimo de’. Grand Prince (1663–1713),
290
,
300–1
,
304
,
320
Medici, Filigno di Conte de’,
31
Medici, Filippo di Francesco de’,
275
Medici, Francesco di Cosimo de’. Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541–87),
269
; his nature and appearance,
275
; and his
mistress,
275
,
276
; his second marriage,
276
; and his brother Pietro,
277
; his interests,
278
; and Palazzo della Signoria,
312
Medici, Francesco Maria di Ferdinando de’. Cardinal (1660–1710),
299–300
,
304
Medici, Gian Carlo di Cosimo de’, Cardinal (1611–63),
286
,
332
Medici, Gian Gastone di Cosimo de’, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671–1737), birth of,
293
; his marriage,
302–3
; his unhappiness,
303
; returns to Florence,
304–5
; Grand Duke,
307
; his disreputable behaviour,
308–9
; death of,
309
,
310
Medici, Ginevra de’,
née
degli Albizzi,
96
Medici, Ginevra de’,
née
Cavalcanti,
43
Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de’ (1360–1429), his personality,
31–2
,
40
; his appearance,
31
; in public life,
32
; his business,
33
,
34
,
35
; and John XXIII,
34
,
36
; and Martin V,
36
; and his son Cosimo,
38
,
44
; advice to his sons,
40–1
; a generous patron,
69
,
71
; and the Baptistery bronze doors,
70
; his cornelian cameo,
70
; his funeral,
98
; his tomb,
317
; his sarcophagus,
319
Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo de’ (1421–63),
39
,
101
; and Villa Belcanto,
77–8
; and his father,
95
; character and appearance,
95
; public servant,
95
; his slave-girl,
95–6
; death of,
96
; his tomb,
112
,
321
; and Botticelli’s
Adoration of the Magi
,
320
Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo de’ (1543–62),
269
Medici, Giovanni di Giovanni de’,
called
Giovanni delle Bande Nere (1498–1526),
242
,
257
,
261–2
,
263
Medici, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’,
later
Pope Leo X,
q.v
. (1475–1521), his education,
145
; and his father,
147
; and his brother,
187
; flees from Florençe,
187
; his early preferment,
202–3
; his appearance,
203
; his nature,
203
,
217
; advice from his father,
204–5
; travels abroad,
205
; his pleasures,
206
; Julius II impressed by,
208
; military matters,
209–10
,
212
,
214
; returns to Florence,
215–16
; ill,
216
; Pope,
217
Medici, Giuliano di Lorenzo de’. Duke of Nemours (1478–1516), his personality,
206
,
216
,
219
; enters Florence,
215
;
Gonfaloniere
of the Church,
219
; his marriage,
219
; created Duke,
222
; his death,
223
; his bastard,
236
; his tomb,
240
,
326
Medici, Giuliano di Piero de’ (1453–78),
102
; Botticelli and,
109
,
320
,
322
; Gozzoli and, III; and Clarice Orsini,
117
; delights in festivities,
120–1
; his
giostra
,
121–2
; and the Pazzi Conspiracy,
133–7
; assassinated,
138
; his illegitimate son,
144
; his tomb,
240
,
326
; and Gozzoli’s fresco,
321
