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'''Giovanni Corsi''' (5 February 1600 – 11 March 1661) was an Italian marquis, knight, patron, ambassador and senator of Florence in 1637. He was the second Marquis of Caiazzo, title he inherited after Bardo Corsi death in 1624.<ref name="escultura"> BACCHI, Andrea. BERTI, Federico. PEGAZZANO, Donatella. [http://www.galleriaorsi.com/static/upload/car/carlo-orsi_the-patronage-of-domenico-maria-corsi.pdf The Patronage of Domenico Maria Corsi] Volume 1, 46 pages, {{ISBN|9788894112016}}. 2016, Milan. </ref><ref name="museo"> PEGAZZANO, Donatella. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/301563247.pdf Committenza e collezionismo nel Cinquecento La famiglia Corsi a Firenze tra musica e scultura] 2010, Rivista Edifir Edizioni Firenze s.r.l., Le Voci del Museo nº. 22, Collana di Museologia e Museografia, 80 páginas, ISBN 978-88-7970-451-9 </ref>
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== Life == Giovanni was born on 5 February 1600 in Florence to Jacopo Corsi and Laura Corsini. When his father died in 1602 he was adopted by his uncle Bardo Corsi, who raised him as a son, as well as all his brothers and sisters. Both his father Jacopo and his uncle Bardo were important figures in Florentine cultural life at the end of the 16th century, and Bardo provided Giovanni an excellent and sophisticated education, at the height of the wealth of the Corsi dynasty.<ref name="escultura"/><ref name="museo"/>
He studied at the Accademia Militare di Parma, where he learned about the Code of Chivalry and became a Knight.<ref name="escultura"/><ref name="cavalaria"> [http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-knights/code-ofchivalry.htm#:~:text=The%20Code%20of%20Chivalry%20was,and%20great%20gallantry%20toward%20women.&text=The%20Code%20of%20Chivalry%20was%20the%20honor%20code%20of%20the%20knight Code of Chivalry]. </ref>
[[File:Retrato de Giovanni, pelos irmãos Valore e Domenico Casini.png|left|thumb|Giovanni Corsi in 1628 by Valore and Domenico Casini.]]
In 1624 he inherited from his uncle Bardo Corsi the title of Marquis of Caiazzo (Marchese di Cajazzo) and his possessions, including the Tornabuoni Palace and Villa Corsi, since he died without biological heirs.<ref name="biografia"> STUMPO, Enrico. [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-maria-corsi_(Dizionario-Biografico) CORSI, Domenico Maria] Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 29. 1983, Enciclopédia Treccani. </ref>
Around 1628, when he was still young, he ordered a painting from the Casini brothers. In it Giovanni is portrayed in all his youthful pride, dressed in a sumptuous elegant Turkish-style costume next to a dog, probably a dog that belonged to the family.<ref name="museo"/>
He married Lucrezia Salviati in 1628 <ref name="escultura"/> and from this first relationship the Count Antonio Corsi (b. 1625) and Cardinal Domenico Maria Corsi (b. 1633) were born. Later, after his widowhood, he married Virginia Vitelli in 1640,<ref name="escultura"/> having Laura Corsi (b. 1642) by this marriage.<ref name="biografia"/>
Giovanni was one of the ambassadors of the Medici Dynasty in Milan,<ref name="Elisa"> GOUDRIAAN, Elisa [https://books.google.com/books?id=rDE9DwAAQBAJ&dq=Lorenzo+Corsi&pg=PA147 Florentine Patricians and Their Networks: Structures Behind the Cultural Success and the Political Representation of the Medici Court (1600–1660)] Volume 14, 408 pages, {{ISBN|978-90-04-35358-9|978-90-04-34652-9}}. 26 Oct 2017. </ref> being one of the most illustrious and influential representatives of the Corsi dynasty in that sense.<ref name="escultura"/> In 1634, Giovanni was sent by Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany as ambassador to Milan to honor the new governor.<ref name="escultura"/><ref name="biografia"/>
Three years later, in 1637, he was elected senator of Florence.<ref name="Elisa"/><ref name="escultura"/><ref name="biografia"/>
In 1645 he was part of the procession of Giovan Carlo de' Medici in Rome, shortly after his appointment as cardinal and in 1655 he was entrusted with another important role as ambassador and main speaker in Rome for Pope Alexander VII.<ref name="escultura"/> It was on that occasion, in 1655, that Giovanni suffered an apoplectic attack (stroke), which left him incapacitated until his death in 1661.<ref name="escultura"/><ref name="biografia"/>
After his death, a chapel was erected in his honor by his daughter Laura, who had married the Marquis of Bontieri and Boccheggiano Giovanni Vincenzo Salviati.
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