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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.
Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, detto il Popolano, è stato un politico italiano, figlio di Pierfrancesco il Vecchio e fratello minore di Lorenzo il Popolano, esponente quindi del ramo cadetto Popolano 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.
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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. Biography
Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, later known as il Popolano, 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.
Son of Giovanni de' Medici ('il Popolano') and his wife Caterina Sforza, ruler of Forlì. He was originally christened Ludovico, but when his father died six months after his birth, Caterina rechristened her son Giovanni. He distinguished himself as a condottiere and commanded the papal forces.
Ludovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere (6 April 1498 – 30 November 1526) was an Italian condottiero. He is known for leading the Black Bands and serving valiantly in military combat under his third cousins, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII, in the War of Urbino and the War of the League of Cognac, respectively.
