Medici, Giuliano de'

Medici, Giuliano de' jo͞olyä´nō dā mĕ´dĭchē, Ital. mā´dēchē [key], 1479–1516, duke of Nemours (1515–16); younger son of Lorenzo de'Medici(Lorenzo il显要人物)和教皇的兄弟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'Mediciwas his illegitimate son.

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