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Troilo Orsini
Troilo Orsini was an Italian nobleman belonging to the illustrious House of Orsini. He is known for his service as a Florentine ambassador between 1568 and 1574, as well as his alleged relationship with Princess Isabella de' Medici. He is remembered for his polite demeanour, good looks, and his ability to enliven social gatherings with conversation and music, which likely played a significant role in his diplomatic success. "He was a man who was elegant in all his endeavours, extremely handsome, a great entertainer, a true courtier, the friend of all the ladies and gentlemen" - wrote a contemporary of Troilo. As a young man, Troilo came to Florence as part of his cousin, Paolo Giordano Orsini's retinue, and stayed in the Medici court to safeguard the honour of Princess Isabella de' Medici, Paolo Giordano's young wife who remained in Florence while Paolo Giordano returned to Rome. Possibly due to Isabella's influence on her father, Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, and Troilo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasio Fontebuoni - Troilo Orsini Brings Aid From Cosimo I De' Medici In Florence For King Charles IX Of France
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Charles IX Of France
Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was List of French monarchs, King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II of France, Francis II in 1560, and as such was the penultimate monarch of the House of Valois. Charles' reign saw the culmination of decades of tension between Protestants and Catholics. French Wars of Religion, Civil and religious war broke out between the two parties after the massacre of Vassy in 1562. In 1572, following several unsuccessful attempts at brokering peace, Charles Arranged marriage, arranged the marriage of his sister Margaret of Valois, Margaret to Henry IV of France, Henry of Navarre, a major Protestant nobleman in the line of succession to the French throne, in a last desperate bid to reconcile his people. Facing popular hostility against this policy of appeasement and at the instigation of his mother Catherine de' Medici, Charles oversaw the massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1577 Deaths
Year 1577 ( MDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 9 – The second Union of Brussels is formed, first without the Protestant counties of Holland and Zeeland (which is accepted by King Philip II of Spain), later with the Protestants, which means open rebellion of the whole of the Netherlands. * February 12 – The " Perpetual Edict", providing for the removal of Spanish troops from what is now the Netherlands, is signed in the city of Marche-en-Famenne in the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) by the Spanish Governor-General, Don Juan de Austria and representatives of the Dutch rebellion. The Perpetual Edict will last only five months, before Don Juan begins new attacks on the rebels. * February 23 – The new Shah of Iran, Ismail II, has most of the advisers of his late father executed, including Prince Ibrahim Mirza. * March 17 – The Cathay Company is formed, to send Martin Frobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1547 Births
Year 1547 (Roman numerals, MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a ''Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, Catechism'' (, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas. * January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death for treason in England. * January 16 – Grand Prince Ivan IV of Russia, Ivan IV is crowned as Tsar of all Russia at the Dormition Cathedral, Moscow, Dormition Cathedral in Moscow, thereby proclaiming the Tsardom of Russia. * January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI of England, Edward VI, as King of Kingdom of England, England. * February 20 – Edward VI of England is Coronation of Edward VI, crowned at Westminster Abbey. * March 31 – King Francis I of France dies at the Château de Rambouillet and is succeeded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Orsini, Duke Of Bracciano
Virginio Orsini (11 September 1572 – 9 September 1615) was the second Duke of Bracciano, member of the Orsini family and knight of the order of the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Paolo Giordano I Orsini and Isabella de' Medici, and inherited his father's titles and fiefs after his death in 1585. In 1589 he married Flavia Peretti, a niece of Pope Sixtus V, by whom he had 12 children. His son Paolo Giordano became a prince of the Holy Roman Empire through his marriage with Isabella Appiani, princess of Piombino. Virginio Orsini was a supporter of the Earl of Essex and visited the English court for the Christmas revels in December 1600. He was entertained by Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night'' and the play opens with the character of Duke Orsino saying the famous line "If music be the food of love, play on." Queen Elizabeth danced a galliard for him to show the "vigour of her old age". He died in Rome in 1615. Issue By his wife, Flavia Damasceni Peretti, he had twelve children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riguccio Galluzzi
Jacopo Riguccio Galluzzi (25 April 1739 – 24 September 1801) was an Italian writer and historian, mainly of the Medici dynasty and era in Florence. Biography He was born in Volterra to a prominent family. During 1757–1762, he studied Civil and Canon law at the University of Pisa. He then moved to Florence to work under the jurist Pompeo Neri. He obtained a salaried position in the State department of the Grand Duchy, and in 1768 was appointed professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Florence. In 1769, Riguccio, along with Carlo Bonsi and Ferdinando Fossi, was appointed by Grand-Duke Leopold with the gargantuan task of reorganizing the archives of the Secretary of State of Tuscany. He continued into the 1790s with various government posts. He wrote a history of the House of Medici, including of the last of grand-duke of the family, Gian Gastone. The work was commissioned by Grand-Duke Leopold. During the occupation of Tuscany by the French Revolutionary armies, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzio Picchena
Curzio Picchena (, 11 January 1553, San Gimignano — 16 June 1626, Florence) was an Italian politician and scholar associated with the humanist movement. He was born on 11 January 1553 in San Gimignano to Lorenzo da Picchena and an unknown woman. Da Picchena family was originally from Colle di Val d'Elsa, quite close to Curzio's birthplace. Career After obtaining a doctorate in law from the University of Pisa, Picchena pursued a long career in diplomacy on behalf of the Medici family. He entered the service of Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici by an introduction from Belisario Vinta, then a First Secretary of Tuscany. From 7 May 1576 to 1578, he held the position of legation secretary in France, serving under ambassador Sinolfo Saracini. Accused of the assassination of Florentine rebels like Troilo Orsini who had sought refuge with the Queen Mother, Catherine de' Medici, Picchena was arrested. After a month, he was released and banished from the kingdom on December 24, 1578. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Maria Salviati
Antonio Maria Salviati (21 January 1537 – 26 April 1602) was a Florentine Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography Salviati was born in Florence, son of Lorenzo Salviati and Costanza Conti, the nephew of cardinals Bernardo Salviati and Giovanni Salviati. His grandmother was Lucrezia de' Medici, sister of pope Leo X and eldest daughter of Lorenzo il Magnifico. In 1561 he was appointed as bishop of Saint-Papoul in France, and later was apostolic nuncio in the same country. Pope Gregory XIII created him as cardinal on 12 December 1583. After becoming Cardinal he went in charge of the Ministers to the Sick. Salviati was mostly known for having been a benefactor. In Rome, he refounded the Arcispedale of San Giacomo degli Incurabili (rebuilding the annexed baroque-style Church of San Giacomo in Augusta) and founded the Collegio Salviati at his own expense at the end of 16th century, then he gifted them to the city of Rome. Other funding from him were towards the Hospital of San Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro De' Medici
Don Pietro de' Medici (3 June 1554 – 25 April 1604) was the youngest son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. Early in 1571 he went to Rome and in the spring of 1575 he went to Venice. In 1571 he married his first cousin Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, whom he accused of adultery and strangled with a dog leash in July 1576 at the Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo. He also had her supposed lover Bernardino Antinori imprisoned and killed. At the end of 1577, he went for the first of many stays at the Spanish court. He remained in Spain until the end of 1578. During this visit he gained a reputation as a spendthrift and a rake. He left Tuscany in October 1579 to bring Italian troops to Spain and lead them during the mission to Portugal. He stayed in Lisbon until the end of 1582 when he returned to Spain where his presence is documented in 1583 and 1584. His correspondence proves that he had serious money problems. He came to Italy in July 1584 to ask hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Serguidi
Antonio Serguidi (1532, Volterra – 5 September 1602, Florence) was an Italian statesman, knight and a secretary for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Background He was born in Volterra, 1532 to Lorenzo Serguidi and Lucrezia Squarcialupi. He was already related to powerful families of Tuscany - his paternal grandmother was Antonia di Benedetto Guidi, a member of Guidi family and his maternal grandmother was Pietra Usimbardi, a relative of Pietro Usimbardi. His brother, Guido, would become the bishop of Volterra (1574–98). Career Under Cosimo I In 1558, Antonio was introduced into the service of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici by the secretary Iacopo Guidi, his relative and fellow native of Volterra, who would later become the bishop of Atri and Penne. Antonio later aligned himself with Bartolomeo Concini, another secretary of Cosimo I, whose daughter, Elisabetta, he married, distancing himself from Guidi. Concini, in the mid-16th century, had risen to a position of great prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Concini
Bartolomeo Concini (1507, Terranuova Bracciolini – January 18, 1578, Florence) was an influential political figure and diplomat in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of the Florentine Republic, Duke of Florence, and later List of grand dukes of Tuscany, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Born in Terranuova Bracciolini in the Valdarno near Arezzo, he rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most trusted advisors to Cosimo I. His descendants, before the family's extinction in 1632, would continue his political and diplomatic career at the grand ducal court, forge alliances with prominent city families, and hold important political and diplomatic positions for a long time. Early life Concini was born to Giovan Battista di Matteo, a farmer, in 1507. He had a brother called Carlo Concini. Despite his modest origins, Concini quickly rose through the ranks in Florentine society. Initially working as a notary, he was recommended by Filippo Strozzi the Younger, Filippo Strozzi to Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando I De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (30 July 1549 – 17 February 1609) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I, who presumably died from malaria. Early life Ferdinando was the fifth son (the third surviving at the time of his birth) of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Eleanor of Toledo, the daughter of Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca, the Spanish viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples. He was made a Cardinal in 1562 at the age of 13, but was never ordained into the priesthood. At Rome, he proved an able administrator. He founded the Villa Medici in Rome. He acquired the large collection of antiquities established by Andrea della Valle in 1584, as well as other works of art like the Medici lions. These were subsequently divided among the various Medici estates. Grand Duke When his brother Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, died in 1587, Ferdinando succeeded as grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
