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Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (15 February 1472 – 28 December 1503),: 7 called Piero the Fatuous or Piero the Unfortunate, was the lord of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494.
Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent who ruled in Florence for only two years (1492–94) before being expelled. He was charismatic and proved to be a good soldier, but he was painfully lacking in political sense, and he owes his surname of ‘the Unfortunate’ mainly to his own errors of judgment.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 28, 2017 · Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici, later dubbed Piero the Unfortunate or The Fatuous, died on this day in 1503, drowning in the Garigliano river, south of Rome, as he attempted to flee following a military defeat.
- Cosimo. The original “dark money” man. In the early 1400s, he strategically deployed the banking fortune he inherited to essentially buy politicians, popes, positions, and even marriages, becoming the de-facto ruler of Florence despite never holding office himself.
- Lorenzo. Cosimo’s grandson picked up the mantle of artistic patronage and ran with it even further. He created a sculpture garden and filled it with ancient statuary, which artists and poets came to study.
- Piero. The eldest son of Lorenzo, Piero had his work cut out for him. The fragile regional peace cobbled together by his father, largely through the force of his personality, crumbled soon after Lorenzo’s death in 1492.
- Giovanni (aka Pope Leo X) The younger brother of Piero, Giovanni was perhaps given the easier row to hoe. When he was 13, his father prevailed upon the pope (a distant relative) to make the boy a cardinal.
May 19, 2021 · But some of your relatives had less-exalted handles. Your father — known as Piero the Gouty — is not to be confused with your son Piero the Unfortunate.
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, called Piero the Fatuous or Piero the Unfortunate, was the lord of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494.
Jul 9, 2020 · Piero de Medici, the Unfortunate, a timeline chronology of the main events in his life including education, personal life, exile and death
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