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Mother. Laudomia Acciaioli. Giovanni de' Medici, in full Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, later known as il Popolano (the commoner) (21 October 1467 – 14 September 1498) was an Italian nobleman of the Medici House of Florence. He was the son of Pierfrancesco di Lorenzo de' Medici, and therefore a member of a secondary branch of the family.
Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, detto il Popolano ( Firenze, 21 ottobre 1467 – San Piero in Bagno, 14 settembre 1498 ), è stato un politico italiano, figlio di Pierfrancesco il Vecchio e fratello minore di Lorenzo il Popolano, esponente quindi del ramo cadetto Popolano (o del Trebbio) della famiglia Medici .
When Giovanni Il Popolano De' Medici was born on 21 October 1467, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, his father, Pierfrancesco De' Medici Il vecchio, was 51 and his mother, Laudomia Di Agnolo Acciaioli, was 47. He married Caterina Sforza in 1497. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Caterina Sforza
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (4 August 1463 – 20 May 1503), nicknamed the Popolano, was an Italian banker and politician, the brother of Giovanni il Popolano. He belonged to the junior (or "Popolani") branch of the House of Medici of Florence .
The appearance at auction in 1982, from the Thomas Merton collection, of a rarely seen painting by Botticelli of a young man identified (with no real evidence) as Giovanni il Popolano in a similar pose, holding up a round medallion cut from a much older painting (albeit of a bearded saint, not Cosimo), has led to speculation that this might be ...
The earliest notice of these two pictures [The Birth of Venus and The Primavera] is that of Anonimo Gaddiano, writing in 1542-48, who quotes some earlier writer who states “At Castello, in the house of Signor Giovanni de’ Medici, he [Botticelli] painted several pictures which are among the most beautiful works that he made.” [and ...
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (c. 1360–1429), Italian banker; Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421–1463), Italian banker; Giovanni il Popolano (Giovanni de' Medici, 1467–1498), Italian nobleman; Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 1475–1521), Head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521
