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Ferdinand I de Medici

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ferdinand I de' Medici 1549-1609, grand duke of Tuscany (1587-1609); brother and successor of Francesco de' Medici. He was made a cardinal in his youth, and he built the famous Villa Medici at Rome. To become grand duke at his brother's death he resigned his cardinalate (he had never been ordained). Ferdinand improved the administration, strengthened the fleet, and created the port of Livorno. His son, Cosimo II de' Medici, succeeded him. Author not available, MEDICI, FERDINAND I DE'. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Cosimo II de' Medici
1590-1621, grand duke of Tuscany (1609-21); son and successor of Ferdinand I de' Medici. Although Cosimo played a role in the War of the Mantuan...he appointed court philosopher and mathematician. His son, Ferdinand II de' Medici, succeeded him. Read more

Francesco de' Medici
...Tuscany (1574-87); son and successor of Cosimo I de' Medici. In his reign the decline of the Medici family began. He allowed the Austrian and Spanish branches...first married Joanna, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and then, after Joanna's death, Bianca Capello. His daughter by the first ... Read more

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	The Medici Wedding of 1589 ; The Medici Wedding of 1589, by James Saslow. This is a wonderful book, for it recreates the nuptials of Grand Duke Ferdinand de' Medici in all their splendor. The author persuasively demonstrates how Renaissance art was put to political use, showing... Read more
	Magnificent! The Glory Of the Medici ; ...Tribune 11-15-1997 Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-92) has conventionally...and his sons Francesco I and Ferdinand I (who died in 1609). Yet the era of the Medici grand dukes has never attracted...Magnificence at the Court of the Medici: Art in Florence at the End...Florence's age-old rival Siena. The ... Read more
	Tomb intrusion disturbs Medici peace ; ...in Florence are planning to exhume the remains of 49 Medici corpses this month for a wide-ranging forensic study...this without asking permission,'' said Marchese Giuliano Medici Tornaquinci, an elder of the portion of the family that...Tornaquinci, a distant relative, Prince Ottaviano de' Medici, of a ... Read more
	Pampered like a Medici Princess; immerses herself in the joys of an ancient spa in the hills of Tuscany Cherie Lunghi. ; ...the surface. Italy's mighty Medici family were not only powerful...Tuscan hot springs, Grand Duke Ferdinand built a country palace. It...formerly known as the Terme de Medici Hotel. Ferdinand was not the first to discover...Their prayers to the god of medicine and the goddess of good ... Read more
	Pampered like a Medici princess. ; ...the surface. Italy's mighty Medici family were not only powerful...Tuscan hot springs, Grand Duke Ferdinand built a country palace. It...formerly known as the Terme de Medici Hotel. Ferdinand was not the first to discover...Their prayers to the god of medicine and the goddess of good ... Read more
	Machiavelli's imagination of excellent men: an appraisal of the lives of Cosimo de' Medici and Castruccio Castracani. ; ...dedicated his translation of Xenophon's Education of Cyrus to Ferdinand of Aragon, he implied that simply by reading the life of Cyrus, Ferdinand would already be imitating another great prince, Scipio...writings, if anywhere at all. When the life of Cosimo de' Medici, related in Machiavelli's Florentine ... Read more
	Ferdinand of Tyrol (1529-1595). (The History of Mineral Collecting: 1530-1799) ; ...was installed by his father as governor of Bohemia. Ferdinand I abdicated in 1564, passing the imperial title to...Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia. At Ferdinand's death in 1564 his younger son, Ferdinand II, was appointed governor of Tyrol and the adjacent...Spared the pressures of ... Read more
	Who'll Head the CIA?(Ferdinand Metz leaves Culinary Institute of America)(Brief Article)(Editorial) ; Ferdinand Metz has helped elevate the status of many chains. The pending departure of Ferdinand Metz as president of the Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Culinary Institute...restaurants, including a bakery operation and the Caterina de Medici restaurant; led the push for a West Coast campus, Greystone... Read more
	Photography by other means? The engravings of Ferdinand Gaillard. ; ...a portrait by one of the brothers Bellini, engraved by M. Ferdinand Gaillard with a religious care. Was the jury pretending to...talents that are as classic and as sincere as that of M. Ferdinand Gaillard? (3) Burty proved farsighted in singling out the...reward of an extended stay in Italy and a base at the ... Read more
	I walk in the valley of light, and marvel ; When Grand Duke Ferdinand de Medici built a hostelry in Radicofani for early Grand Tourists, he can hardly have had Stephanie, Steve and the rest of us in mind. The... Read more

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