Father: Lorenzo the Magnificent
Mother: Clarice Orsini
Ruler: 1512-1516
Age: 33
Wife: Philiberte of Savoy (1515)
Children: None official
Ippolito (illegitimate)
Died: 1516
Age: 37
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| Born: 1479 Father: Lorenzo the Magnificent Mother: Clarice Orsini Ruler: 1512-1516 Age: 33 Wife: Philiberte of Savoy (1515) Children: None official Ippolito (illegitimate) Died: 1516 Age: 37 |
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| Posthum portrait of Giuliano by Michelangelo, 1526-1533 | ||||||||||
| duke of Nemours (1515�16); younger son of Lorenzo de� Medici (Lorenzo il Magnifico) and brother of Pope Leo X. He entered Florence in 1512 when the Holy League restored his family to rule the city. Having married a princess of the Nemours branch of the house of Savoy, he was invested with the duchy by Francis I of France, who also intended to place him on the throne of Naples. Giuliano was a patron of the arts and letters. His statue, by Michelangelo, together with the statues of Day and Night, adorn his tomb in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Ippolito de� Medici was his illegitimate son. | ||||||||||