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| Giuliano de' Medici | |
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| Portrait by Sandro Botticelli. | |
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| Pope Clement VII (illegitimate) | |
| Noble family | Medici |
| Father | Piero the Gouty |
| Mother | Lucrezia Tornabuoni |
| Born | 1453 Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Died | 26 April 1478 (aged 25) Florence Cathedral, Republic of Florence |
Giuliano de' Medici (1453 – April 26, 1478) 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."
As the opening stroke of the Pazzi Conspiracy, he was assassinated in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini. He was killed by a sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.[1]
Giuliano was buried in his father's tomb in the Church of San Lorenzo but later, with his brother Lorenzo, was reinterred in the Medici Chapel of the same church, in an unmarked tomb surmounted by a statue of the Madonna and Child of Michelangelo.[1]
Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, Giuliano's illegitimate son by his mistress Fioretta Gorini, went on to become Pope Clement VII.
References
- ^ a b Hugh Ross Williamson, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Michael Joseph (1974), ISBN 0-7181-1204-0
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