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Données personnelles Lorenzo de' Medici 

• Il est né le 12 septembre 1492 dans Florence.
• Profession: hertog van Urbino, heer van Florence.
• Il est décédé le 4 mai 1519, il avait 26 ans.
• Un enfant de Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici et Alfonsina Orsini

Famille de Lorenzo de' Medici

(1) Il est marié avec Simonetta da Collevecchio.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. Allesandro de' Medici  1510-1537

(2) Il est marié avec Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. Catharina de Medici  1519-1589 

Notes par Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian pronunciation: [lo'rentso di 'pjɛːro de ˈmɛːditʃi]), (12 September 1492 – 4 May 1519)[1] was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine de' Medici became Queen Consort of France, while his illegitimate son, Alessandro de' Medici, became the first Duke of Florence.
Lorenzo was born in Florence on 12 September 1492, a son of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini. His paternal grandparents were Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini. His maternal grandparents were Roberto Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo, and Catherine San Severino.

In 1510, while the Medici family were living near Rome, a black servant in their household - identified in documents as Simonetta da Collevecchio - gave birth to a son, Alessandro de Medici, whom Lorenzo officially recognized as his illegitimate son. In 1531, Alessandro de' Medici became Florence's first hereditary monarch.

Lorenzo became lord of Florence in August 1513, after his uncle, Giuliano de' Medici, handed over control of its government. Ambitious by nature, Lorenzo lacked patience with Florence's republican system of government, and thus in 1516, convinced his uncle, Pope Leo X to make him Duke of Urbino at the age of 24.[3] So began a conflict with the city's previous duke, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, who in 1517 recaptured the city, only to have it retaken by Lorenzo in the protracted War of Urbino, with the latter commanding of a 10,000 man army. During battle, Lorenzo was wounded and afterward retired to Tuscany; however, he regained the duchy via treaty signed in September 1517.[4] Following Lorenzo's death in 1519, Urbino reverted to the Della Rovere family.

As Duke of Urbino, Lorenzo married Madeleine de la Tour, daughter of the Count of Auvergne, on 13 June 1518. The marriage produced a daughter, Catherine, who was born in 1519. Catherine de' Medici went on to become Queen of France, via a marriage the future King Henry II of France, arranged by her cousin, the Medici Pope Clement VII.[5]

Only 21 days after Catherine de' Medici's birth, Lorenzo died of syphilis. His daughter was raised primarily by the Medici Popes, Leo X and Clement VII, and their surrogates. Lorenzo's tomb is in the Medici Chapel of Florence's Church of San Lorenzo, adorned by Michelangelo's sculpture Pensieroso, representing the Duke. Its companion piece, also sculpted by Michelangelo, represents Lorenzo's uncle Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici. In sharing the same name with his illustrious grandfather, Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Duke's tomb is often mistaken for that of his relative.[6][7]

Famously, Niccolò Machiavelli dedicated his political treatise The Prince to Lorenzo to inform him of tactics to use in unifying Italy.

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