Giuliano de' Medici

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Giuliano de' Medici
Portrait by Sandro Botticelli.
Issue 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 24–25) 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."

Death

As the opening stroke of the Pazzi Conspiracy, he was assassinated on Sunday, 26 April 1478 in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli. He was killed by a sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.^[1]

Giuliano de' Medici, terracotta bust by Andrea del Verrocchio, c. 1475/1478, in the National Gallery of Art.

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]^[2]

Personal

Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, Giuliano's illegitimate son by his mistress Fioretta Gorini, went on to become Pope Clement VII.

In other media

Guiliano de' Medici is portrayed by Tom Bateman in Starz's original series Da Vinci's Demons.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Hugh Ross Williamson, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Michael Joseph (1974), ISBN 0-7181-1204-0
↑ Peter Barenboim, Sergey Shiyan, Michelangelo: Mysteries of Medici Chapel, SLOVO, Moscow, 2006. ISBN 5-85050-825-2

External links

Media related to Giuliano de' Medici at Wikimedia Commons

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Persondata
Name	Medici, Giuliano Di Piero De'
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1453
Place of birth	Florence, Republic of Florence
Date of death	26 April 1478
Place of death	Florence Cathedral, Republic of Florence

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