Giuliano de medici and simonetta vespucci
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Giuliano de’ Medici. Who was the brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent?
Handsome, athletic, passionate and kind. That’s how history books portray Giuliano de’ Medici (Florence 1453-1478). He was the younger brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, at the time when the Medici family was unofficially ruling Florence. Giuliano didn’t get a chance to show all his qualities to the world, as he was brutally murdered during what is known as the Pazzi Conspiracy, on April 1478.
He didn’t have time to accomplish much during his short life, and while his brother gained a special place in history books, Giuliano will be remembered as the young golden boy whose life was cut short in his prime.
Giuliano de’ Medici: A few facts
The last son of Piero the Gouty and Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Giuliano was born in 1453, four years after Lorenzo. His grandfather Cosimo the Elder , wealthy banker and astute politician, was the one who started the fortune of the Medici family.
Giuliano was attractive, elegant and very good at jousting, he had a very speci
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Unfairly maligned for over five centuries, Giuliano de’Medici at last receives his first major and sustained biography.
Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici partisans who feared his popularity and respect for republican self-rule.
Rejecting the autocratic rule imposed by his nephew, Lorenzo (Duke of Urbino), and brother, Giovanni (Pope Leo X), Giuliano advocated restraint and retention of republican traditions, believing his family should be “first among equals” and not more. As a result, the family and those closest to them wrote him out of the political scene, and historians - relying too heavily upon the accounts of supporters of Cardinal Giovanni and the Medici regime - followed suit. Interpreting works of art, book
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Giuliano de' Medici
For other uses, see Giuliano de' Medici (disambiguation).
15th-century Italian nobleman, brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Giuliano de' Medici (28 October 1453 – 26 April 1478)[1] was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting "golden boy". He was killed in a plot known as the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478.
Personal life
In 1478, Giuliano was promised in marriage to Semiramide Appiani Aragona, daughter of Iacopo III Appiani, Prince of Piombino and niece of his presumed lover Simonetta Vespucci,[2] though died before the wedding could take place.[3] After Giuliano's death, Semiramide married his cousin, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, in 1482.[3]
Giuliano had an illegitimate son by his mistress Fioretta Gorini,[4]Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, who would later become Pope Clement VII.[5&#
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