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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. [2] The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior ...
Feb 8, 2022 · Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, in Florence. ... Vespucci is buried in Florence. The naming of America. Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map was the first to use the word "America ...
Dec 6, 2023 · The First Grand Duke: Cosimo I de’ Medici. Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (who reigned from 1537–1574) and his wife, Duchess Eleanora di Toledo, like their Medici family members, never traveled to the Americas. But they too continued to acquire plants, animals, and other objects from these far-away lands.
The dominant family in early modern Florence, the Medici produced several popes and cardinals, married into Europe 's Catholic royal houses, and either dominated or ruled Florence from the early fifteenth century until 1737. In 1434 the banker Cosimo de' Medici the Elder (1389 – 1464), outwardly respecting the republican constitution, became ...
Amerigo Vespucci ( / vɛˈspuːtʃi / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1451 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian [2] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery ...
"Viridis Visconti (1352–1414) was an Italian noblewoman, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. By her marriage to Leopold III, Duke of Austria, Viridis was Duchess consort of Austria, Styria and Carinthia, she was also Countess consort of Tyrol." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.11.2019)
May 20, 2024 · Amerigo Vespucci (born 1454?, Florence, Italy—died 1512, Sevilla, Spain) was a merchant and explorer-navigator who took part in early voyages to the New World (1499–1500 and 1501–02) and occupied the influential post of piloto mayor (“master navigator”) in Sevilla (1508–12). The name for the Americas is derived from his given name.
