Talk:Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici

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[edit] Erroneous text

I cut out this text:

Upon taking over the family bank from his father, Piero quickly called-up on bad loans made to various Medici supporters. This subsequently drove many of the Medici supporters into bankruptcy.

because none of my reference books mention it. I do recall this story, but I think it was a different Medici - alas, I am unable to figure out which one! Feel free to put it back once we figure out which entry it goes into. Jnc 18:18, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Contact! I found it; it was the other Piero, Piero di Cosimo (the Gouty). That's why it's important to use the full names, it's easy to get confused. Noel 13:58, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Aye, but don't forget that that anecdote comes from Machiavelli (who is not entirely trustworthy), and the war with the Ottomans is a perfectly acceptable alternate reason that all those bankruptcies could have occurred. -- Gwern (contribs) 03:55, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birth date

[1] says just 1472 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Urhixidur (talk • contribs) 03:25, 14 July 2005.

Hmmm. I'm trying to remember where that birth date came from; it was probably some geneaology site (e.g. this one or this one). Also, 1471 has some good support; Hibbert, The House of Medici gives his birth year as 1471 (but not the exact date), as does the Columbia encyclopaedia. Now, perhaps there is more recent scholarship which has corrected that, but it's equally possible that the Britannica has a typo. (The 1911 Britannica gave it as 1471, too.) Noel (talk) 13:30, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

According to the genealogy in Hay and Law's Italy in the Age of the Renaissance (Longman, 1989), Piero, son of Lorenzo il Magnifico, was born in 1471. I think this is a pretty good authority. --SoniaUK 23:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of Peiro

I have uploaded an image of Peiro as a child. Thought it could go on the front page. Peiro is the Child looking at us.