| Succession | Lord of Florence |
|---|---|
| Reign | 9 March 1513 – 17 March 1516 |
| Predecessor | Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici |
| Successor | Lorenzo ΙΙ de' Medici |
| Spouse | Filiberta of Savoy |
| Issue | Ippolito de' Medici (illegitimate) |
| Noble family | Medici |
| Father | Lorenzo I de' Medici |
| Mother | Clarice Orsini |
| Birth date | 12 March 1479 |
| Birth place | Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Death date | 17 March 1516 (aged 37) |
| Death place | Florence, Republic of Florence |
Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici (12 March 1479 – 17 March 1516) was an Italian nobleman, the third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and a ruler of Florence.
Biography
Born in Florence, he was raised with his brothers Piero and Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, who became Pope Leo X; as well as his cousin Giulio de' Medici, who became Pope Clement VII.
His older brother Piero was briefly the ruler of Florence after Lorenzo's death, until the republican faction drove out the Medici in 1494. Giuliano moved, therefore, to Venice. The Medici family was restored to power after the Holy League drove the French forces that had supported the Florentine republicans from Italy. This effort was headed by Spain with the support of Pope Julius II. Giuliano reigned in Florence following his brother's election to the papacy in 1513, until he died in 1516 from pulmonary tuberculosis at Badia Fiesolana.[1]
He married Philiberta (1498–1524), daughter of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, on 22 February 1515 at the court of France,[2] thanks to the intercession of his brother Giovanni, now pope as Leo X, in the same year that King Francis I of France (Filiberta's nephew) invested him with the title Duke of Nemours (which had recently reverted once again to the French crown) on the occasion. The French were apparently grooming him for the throne of Naples (in which the French maintained a historical interest), when Giuliano died prematurely. He was succeeded in Florence by his nephew Lorenzo II de' Medici.
Giuliano left a single illegitimate son, Ippolito de' Medici, who became a cardinal.
His portrait, painted in Rome by Raphael (a painter favoured by Leo), shows Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo behind a curtain. (A studio version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Giuliano's tomb in the Medici Chapel[3] of the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, is ornamented with the Night and Day of Michelangelo, along with a statue of Giuliano by Michelangelo. He shares an identical common name (Giuliano de' Medici) with his uncle Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, whose tomb is also in the Medici Chapel and who is famous for having been assassinated in the Pazzi Conspiracy.
References
- ^ McManamon, John M. (Spring 1991). "Marketing a Medici Regime: The Funeral Oration of Marcello Virgilio Adrianifor Giuliano de' Medici (1516)". Renaissance Quarterly. 44 (1): 1–41. doi:10.2307/2862404. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2862404
- ^ Kemp 2006, p. 344.
- ^ Peter Barenboim, Sergey Shiyan, Michelangelo: Mysteries of Medici Chapel, SLOVO, Moscow, 2006. ISBN 5-85050-825-2
Sources
- Kemp, Martin (2006). Leonardo Da Vinci. Oxford University Press.
- Jungić, Josephine (2018). Giuliano de'Medici: Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art. Anne Leader (ed.). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0773553200.