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	MEDICI (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on MEDICI (FAMILY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo had some apprehension that he might be poisoned in prison, but Federigo dei Malavolti, captain of the palace guard, showed him the utmost kindness, and, to soothe his fears, voluntarily shared his meals.
		Cosimo's first thought was to secure himself against all future risk of removal from Florence, arid accordingly he drove the most powerful citizens into exile to all parts of Italy.
		Cosimo preferred to confer office upon men of humble origin in order to have pliable tools, but he also liked to be surrounded by a courtier aristocracy on the Spanish and French pattern.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEDICI_FAMILY_.htm (12022 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tuscany
		Cosimo II ruled in the same spirit as his father and raised the prosperity of the country to a height never before attained.
		Cosimo III (1670-1723) brought the country to the brink of ruin by his unlucky policy and his extravagance.
		Cosimo III was followed by his second son Giovan Gastone (1723-37), who permitted the country to be governed by his unscrupulous chamberlain, Giuliano Dami.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15103b.htm (2049 words)

	Medici. Who is Medici? What is Medici? Where is Medici? Definition of Medici. Meaning of Medici.
		The so-called "senior" branch of the family, those descended from Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) (and thereafter from his son Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent), ruled until the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici (the Moor) in 1537.
		Cosimo de' Medici (the Elder) (1389-1464), founder of the Medici political dynasty
		Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574), first Grand Duke of Tuscany, restored the Medici lustre
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Medici (534 words)

	Famiglie storiche - pafg07 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		COSIMO II MEDICI GR.DUCA TOSCANA [Parents] was born in 1590.
		COSIMO III MEDICI GR.DUCA-ULTIMO was born in 1642.
		COSIMO III MEDICI GR.DUCA-ULTIMO [Parents] was born in 1642.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /ulamagni/fmglstoriche/pafg07.htm (346 words)

	Channel 4 - History - The Medici: A chronology
		The future Cosimo III is born, son of Ferdinando II and Vittoria della Rovere.
		Gian-Gastone is born, son of Cosimo III and Marguerite-Louise d'Orleans.
		Cosimo III dies and is succeeded by his 52-year-old unmarried son Gian-Gastone, a dedicated botanist.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/i-m/medici2.html (530 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Galileo \| Patrons \| Medici Family
		Cosimo's son, Francesco I (1541-1587) was an ineffectual ruler under whom Tuscany languished.
		Cosimo's son, Ferdinand II (1610-1670) was just ten years old when he became Grand Duke, and until his majority the government was carried on by the two Grand Duchesses, Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, and Cosimo's wife, Maria Magdalena of Austria, the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.
		Cosimo III's rule was one of incompetence and religious intolerance.
	galileo.rice.edu /gal/medici.html (1482 words)

	Montauti
		Antonio Montauti (a portrait in the marble of Grand Duke Cosimo III by the hand of Mr.
		Cosimo III ruled for 53 years and, as Acton has remarked, was an assiduous collector and patron of the arts and humanities whose insatiable curiosity drove interests as diverse as botany, oenophilia, and natural history.
		This baroque bust is a rare example of this sculptor’s skill as a portraitist and is a testament both to Montauti’s aptitude in marble carving and to the dignity of the troubled yet enlightened sitter.
	www.stiebel.com /Montauti.htm (518 words)

	The Grand-Duchy of Tuscany
		Cosimo III married in 1661 a first cousin of Louis XIV, who bore him three children (two sons and a daughter) and returned to Paris where she almost outlived her husband.
		Cosimo III was now facing the probably extinction of his house, and started worrying about his succession, as the grand-ducal branch of the house of Medici was verging on extinction.
		Cosimo III initially did think of the prince of Ottaiano as successor (skipping over the Florence Medici whom he deemed too lowly), and he tried to put this proposal before the diplomats gathered the The Hague to negotiate an end to the War of Spanish Succession.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/tuscany.htm (3942 words)

	Heraldry in Tuscany
		Cosimo III was the first to style himself "by the grace of God" on his accession, and to use a closed form of the Tuscan crown starting in 1706.
		He was styled: Francois III by the grace of God duke of Lorraine, Bar and grand duke of Tuscany, king of Jerusalem.
		He was succeeded in 1824 by his son Leopold III (1797-1870), who promulgated in 1848 a constitution suppressed in 1852, and was expelled by his subjects in 1859.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/national/tuscany.htm (2241 words)

	The Medici Family
		Cosimo I who was the great great grandson of Lorenzo whose brother was Cosimo the elder was the first in the line of this new branch of Medicis.
		Ferdinand's eldest son, Cosimo II made Tuscany prosperous by feeding Europe with its hefty amounts of food from their large harvest when Europe was in a time of need.
		Cosimo III then had a daughter, Anna Marie Luisa who gave all the treasure and the artwork of the Medici family away to the grand duchy and Florence.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/renaissance2/TheMediciFamily.htm (963 words)

	The surviving prerogatives and titles of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo’s most long-lasting achievement was his foundation, with Papal support, of the “Sacred[4] Military Order of Santo Stefano” on 15 March 1561, to commemorate his victory over the French, led by Marshal Strozzi, at the battle of Marciano, on Santo Stefano's day, 2 August 1554.
		Cosimo had been reassured by her evident fertility, but had ignored her lack of physical charms – she was the same age as Gian Gastone, and like him a colossus of bosom and belly.
		As both his sons were childless Cosimo III had been faced with the threat of the Emperor seizing the Grand Duchy, on the pretext that it was an Imperial fief without an heir.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/habsburg/tuscany/survprerogtusc.htm (11026 words)

	Giovanni Battista Foggini: Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642-1723) and Grand Prince Ferdinando de' ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723), 17th century (ca.
		These bust of the elder son of Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici and that of his father belong to a series of compelling images representing members of the Medici family.
		His face is framed by a mass of cascading curls that merges with the lavish Venetian gros-point lace of his jabot and the folds of his generous mantle.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/09/eustc/hod_1993.332.1,2.htm (233 words)

	Italy
		When Napoleon III withdrew his troops in 1870, to use them against Prussia, Rome was occupied, despite the protests of the Pope, and made capital of the completely reunited country.
		In 1055 the Emperor Henry III then kidnapped Beatrice and her daughter, Matilda, but before he died (1056) the Emperor reconciled with Godfrey and released the women.
		Cosimo was actually the grandson of Catherine Sforza, whose first husband had been, of all people, Count Girolamo Riario.
	www.friesian.com /italia.htm (9544 words)

	Florence in the sixteenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo's successors shared this passion: Francesco I introduced the mulberry; Ferdinando I built conservatories, tepidaria and other facilities for tropical plants; Ferdinando II brought in pototates and broad-leafed oak; and Cosimo III raised every kind of citrus fruit known at the time.
		It developed significantly throughout the XVI century with Cosimo, Francesco and Ferdinando, and grew into a real territorial system of court residences during the various periods of the year according to carefully studied and intensely enjoyed cycles.
		There was a growing trend among the new branch of the Medici family that came to power in the XVI century to prefer villas along the edges of the Florentine plain over those of the Mugello, the region of the early Medici.
	www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it /apteng/itinerari/500/52b.html (709 words)

	Medici - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo the Elder's notable artistic associates were Donatello and Fra Lippi.
		Cosimo I the Great patronized Vasari who erected the Uffizi Gallery in 1560 and founded the Academy of Design in 1562.
		Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464), founder of the Medici political dynasty
	www.free-definition.com /Medici.html (912 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: House of Medici
		All republican forms and offices were swept away, and Alessandro ruled as duke until, in 1537, he was assassinated by his kinsman, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, who fled to Venice without attempting either to assert his own claims to the succession or to restore the republican regime.
		His great desire of absorbing the neighbouring republics of Lucca and Siena into his dominions was fulfilled only the case of the latter state; he conquered Siena in 1555, and in 1557 received it as a fief from the King of Spain.
		Cosimo's descendants reigned as Grand Dukes of Tuscany in an unbroken line until 1737, when, on the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, their dominions passed to the House of Austria.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10120a.htm (1457 words)

	Medici - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici was the first Medici to enter banking, and while he became influential in Florentine government, it wasn't until son Cosimo the Elder took over that in 1434 as gran maestro that the Medici became unofficial head of state of the Florentine republic.
		The "senior" branch of the family — those descended from Cosimo the Elder; ruled until the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici, the first duke of Florence, in 1537.
		Cosimo the Elder also commissioned Brunelleschi to finish the uncompleted dome of Santa Maria del Fiore.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Medici (1109 words)

	Magazine Antiques: Botanical art in Renaissance Italy - Current and Coming - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo I sought out copies of classical treatises on botanical subjects, and in the l540s he sponsored the construction of botanical gardens in Pisa and Florence, which were among the first of their type in Europe.
		Francesco I, Cosimo's son and the second grand duke of Tuscany, was deeply interested in botany and invited the artist Jacopo Ligozzi to his court in 1577, where he remained until his death in 1626.
		Ferdinando II, the son of Cosimo II and fifth grand duke, was attracted by all aspects of the scientific world, and during his lifetime devices such as the microscope and thermometer were invented.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_3_161/ai_83939656 (684 words)

	Michelangelo tilli - Piazza dei cavalieri
		It was in fact Ferdinand who had the statue of Cosimo with the fountain erected, who did the façade of the church of St. Stephen, the Palazzo del Consiglio dei Dodici, the church of San Rocco with its annexed palace.
		The other significant addition after his, was made not so long ago by Grand Duke Cosimo III who added two side wings to the church of the Knights, and Giovan Battista Foggini has completed its main altar only a short time ago.
		Cosimo III again, wanted in addition all the buildings in the square to belong to the Order, and therefore bought from the Commune the Palazzo dei Priori which has now been called del Consiglio dei Dodici.
	www.alfea.it /storie/storie_eng/tilli/cavalieri/tilli_cavalieri.html (448 words)

	The Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany
		Cosimo I was the great great grandson of Cosimo the Elder's brother (founder of the hitherto extremely obscure cadet side of the family).
		Cosimo I's wife, aristocrat daughter of the Spanish Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples (i.e.
		Cosimo III (1642 - 1723 (81)), son of Ferdinando II Cosimo's 52 year reign was a disaster for the State of Tuscany, and the penultimate nail in the coffin of the Medici dynasty.
	www.paradoxplace.com /Perspectives/Italian%20Images/Montages/Firenze/Medici%202.htm (1039 words)

	The Medici Archive Project: Jewish History, Religion and Culture
		In 1537 Cosimo de'Medici seized definitive control of the Florentine government and reorganized it as a princely state--the Dukedom (later Grand Dukedom) of Tuscany.
		As a sovereign prince, Cosimo I was free to dictate new terms of Jewish resettlement according to his own best interests and those of his regime.
		Cosimo I's liberalism was limited in scope and pragmatic in principle.
	www.medici.org /jewish/jewmedici.html (1032 words)

	ONLIPIX - Great names pictures : MED
		MEDICIS (Cosimo or Côme I, son of Giovanni of MEDICIS and Maria SALVIATI, Grand-duke of Tuscany)(1519-1574)
		MEDICIS (Cosimo or Côme II of, son of Ferdinand I, Grand-duke of Tuscany)(1590-1620)
		MEDICIS (Isabella of, daughter of COSIMO I and ELEONORA OF TOLEDO, wife of Paolo Girolamo ORSINI, countess of Bracciano)(1542-1576)
	www.onlipix.com /personages/med.htm (339 words)

	Your way to Florence:accommodation, tourist services and resources of Chianti, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
		Cosimo spent long hours in prayer and visited monasteries and sanctuaries where he proved a generous and devout guest.
		Cosimo III also made a serious mistak eover his choise of a wife: he married Marguerite Louise of Orléans, cousin of Louis XIV, the sun King.
		She was of a rare beauty, while Cosimo was corpulent from childhood and he was diametrically opposed to his young bride in character and attitude to life.
	www.arca.net /db/medici/medici8.htm (475 words)

	Tuscany Accommodations - SweeTuscany ©: accommodations in Tuscany : hotels in Florence and Chianti campings lodgings ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was to Christina that Galileo later wrote his letter on science and scripture, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine." of Lorraine Ferdinand and Christina had four sons and four daughters.
		Galileo had tutored Cosimo in mathematics during some summers, and therefore the young Grand Duke knew him well and admired him enough to offer him a court position in 1610, after Galileo had dedicated Sidereus Nuncius to him and his family.
		Cosimo II Cosimo's son, Ferdinand II (1610-1670) was just ten years old when he became Grand Duke, and until his majority the government was carried on by the two Grand Duchesses, Cosimo's mother Christina of Lorraine, and Cosimo's
	www.sweetuscany.com /tuscany_resorts/versilia_tuscany_Farm_Holidays.htm (518 words)

	A Wanderer in Florence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo de' Medici was a man of great mental and practical ability: he had been educated as well as possible; he had a passion both for art and letters; he inherited his father's financial ability and generosity, while he added to these gifts a certain genius for the management of men.
		In 1555 the ancient republic of Siena fell to Cosimo's troops after a cruel and barbarous siege and was thereafter merged in Tuscany, and in 1570 Cosimo assumed the title of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and was crowned at Rome.
		Cosimo is buried beneath the floor in front of the high altar, in obedience to his wish, and by the special permission of the Roman Church; and in the same vault lies Donatello.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books140c/wanflo.htm (18106 words)

	Medici, Cosimo de' -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		byname Cosimo the Elder, Italian Cosimo il Vecchio, Latin byname Pater Patriae (Father of his Country) founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537.
		The son of Giovanni di Bicci (1360–1429), Cosimo was initiated into affairs of high finance in the corridors of the Council of Constance, where he represented the Medici bank.
		In the late 17th century the Italian scholar and bibliophile Antonio Magliabechi served as librarian to Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici of Tuscany.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9051737 (753 words)

	Bambooweb: Medici
		Cosimo de' Medici (the Elder) (1389–1464), founder of the Medici political dynasty
		Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent) (1449–1492), leader of Florence during the Golden Age of the Renaissance
		Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), first Grand Duke of Tuscany, restored the Medici lustre
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/m/e/Medici.html (492 words)

	Gian Gastone de' Medici of Tuscany (1671-1737) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici of Tuscany (1642-1723) was an austere and gloomy man. Like some of his Della Rovere ancestors, Cosimo had a inclination towards melancholy and contemporaries claimed that he never laughed.
		In contrast, Cosimo's wife, Marguérite Louise of France (1645-1721), was beautiful, fun-loving, extremely lively, witty and refined, but also stubborn and selfish.
		When the gloomy Cosimo III died two years later, Gian Gastone succeeded him as Grand Duke of Tuscany.
	www.xs4all.ch /~kvenjb/madmonarchs/giangastone/giangastone_tekst.htm (1384 words)

	Giovan Cosimo Bonomo (1663-1696): Discoverer of the etiology of scabies
		Redi was the chief physician of Grand Duke Cosimo III and leader of one of the schools of thought of that time.
		From 1685 to 1687, and probably at the Spa of the city of Livorno, Italy, they studied the morphology and physiology of Sarcoptes scabies, explained the contagious nature of scabies by the passage of the mite from person to person, suggested medications, and finally drew the mite and its eggs as observed under the microscope.
		He studied scabies and its agent with Cestoni probably at the Livorno spa, built in 1602 by Ferdinand I. In 1691 he was designated as the physician of Anna Maria, daughter of the Grand Duke Cosimo III, wife of Giovanni Guglielmo, representative in Germany.
	www.dermato.med.br /hds/bibliography/1998giovan-cosimo-bonomo.htm (2438 words)

	Cosimo - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574).
		Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621).
		Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723).
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Cosimo (138 words)

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