A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the ...

Giovanni di Micci de'Medici (1360-1429) was born into a relatively poor Florentine family and received only a nominal inheritance when his father died of the plague.

A man posing in front of a museum’s priceless Medici painting stumbled and ripped the masterpiece in front of stunned ...

The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance. ... But Lorenzo de'Medici, wary of Pazzi ambition, kept his rivals out of government office during the 1470s.

Gian Gastone s sister, Anna Maria Louisa de Medici was the last surviving member of the family. And when she died in 1743 without any heirs, the Medici family went extinct.

Medici: The Magnificent ended with the Pazzi conspiracy (April 1478), a plot by members of the Pazzi family, led by Jacopo Pazzi, to overthrow the de Medici family as rulers of Florence.

Born in 1519 to the powerful Medici family of Florence, she was orphaned within a month by the deaths of both parents. Though her childhood couldn’t have been easy, it was apparently not the ...

Lorenza de’ Medici di Ottajano was born on July 17, 1926, in Milan to Fanny (Custer) de’ Medici di Ottajano, who came from a wealthy Swiss banking family, and Paolo de’ Medici di Ottajano, ...

Maso degli Albizzi, patriach of his family, had two sons, Luca and Rinaldo. From a young age, Luca was friends with Cosimo de'Medici. They shared a passion for classical learning and good conversation ...