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Medici, Lorenzo de', 1492-1519

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Personal name headingMedici, Lorenzo de', 1492-1519
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Variant(s)Lorenzo de' Medici, 1492-1519
De' Medici, Lorenzo, 1492-1519
Urbino, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo de', Duke of Urbino, 1492-1519
Urbino, Lorenzo de' Medici, duca di, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo de', duca di Urbino, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo de', II, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo de', the Younger, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo de, el Joven, 1492-1519
Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzo di Piero de', 1492-1519
Medici, Lorenzino de', 1492-1519
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, duca di Urbino, 1492-1519
Associated countryItaly Urbino (Duchy)
LocatedFlorence (Italy)
Birth date1492-09-12
Death date1519-05-04
Place of birthFlorence (Italy)
Place of deathFlorence (Italy)
Field of activityFlorence (Italy)--Politics and government Urbino (Italy)--Politics and government
Profession or occupationNobility
Found inButters, H.C. Governors and government in early sixteenth-century Florence, 1985: galley (Lorenzo de' Medici)
Colliers, vol. 15, p. 636 (Medici, Lorenzo de, Duke of Urbino, 1492-1519)
Encyc. Britannica, 15th ed., vol. 11, p. 817 (Medici, Lorenzo de, II Duke of Urbino, 1492-1519)
Hidalgo Ogáyar, Juana. Libro de horas de los Medicis de Lorenzo II el Joven, 1994: p. 15 (Lorenzo II el Joven, duque de Urbino; nephew of Pope Leo X; married Magdalena de la Tour de Auvergne [Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne] in May 1518) p. 85 (son of Piero de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini, grandson of Lorenzo el Magnifico) p. 86 (died 4 May 1519) p. 88 (Lorenzo el Joven) English-language summary, p. 151-152 (Lorenzo II the Younger; his uncle Cardinal Giovanni de Medici, after being elected as Pope Leo X in 1513, chose Lorenzo to be his successor in the government of Florence)
The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance, 2003, viewed online 15 January 2016: Medici, Lorenzo de', Il Magnifico (Lorenzo il Magnifico's namesakes include his grandson Lorenzo (1492-1519), duke of Urbino) Medici family (Lorenzo, duke of Urbino; son of Piero II de' Medici, the eldest son of Lorenzo de' Medici, il Magnifico; nephew of Giuliano de' Medici, who became Pope Leo X) Medici, Piero II de', or Pietro de' (Lorenzo, duke of Urbino, became the father of the future Catherine de Médicis)
Wikipedia, 15 January 2016 (Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino; Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (12 September 1492-4 May 1519); "Lorenzino"; the ruler of Florence from 1513 to his death in 1519; he was also Duke of Urbino from 1516 to 1519; his daughter, Catherine de' Medici, became Queen Consort of France, while his illegitimate son, Alessandro de' Medici, became the first Duke of Florence; born in Florence; his uncle, the Medici Pope Leo X, made him duke of Urbino in 1516; married Madeleine de la Tour, daughter of the Count of Auvergne, on June 13, 1518)
Britannica Academic, 15 January 2016 (Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, duca di Urbino; born Sept. 12, 1492, Florence (Italy); died May 4, 1519, Florence), ruler of Florence from 1513 to 1519, to whom Niccolò Machiavelli addressed his treatise The Prince; after the Medici were restored to Florence in 1512, Lorenzo's uncle Cardinal Giuliano ruled in Florence for one year but then, in August 1513, turned the lordship over to Lorenzo)