Lorenzo de medici death cause

After three seasons of intrigue, hookups, and death, Medici has finally come to an end. The final season of Medici saw Lorenzo de’ Medici (Daniel Sharman) outwit Riario (Jack Roth) and lose his beloved wife Clarice (Synnøve Karlsen). The show also — SPOILER ALERT — ends with Lorenzo the Magnificent’s own untimely passing. The real Lorenzo de’ Medici was only 43 years old when he passed, leaving Italy in disarray.

Medici on Netflix — or Medici: Masters of Florence and Medici: The Magnificent Seasons 1 & 2 — is an Italian-British series about the rise of the Medici clan in Renaissance Florence. The family of bankers exerted their influence to such an extent that by Season 3, they’re literally in the fight to pick the next Pope. While they wage war and hatch plots, the Medici are also working to build Florence into a center of art and enlightenment. Indeed, the Medici are remembered as fondly as they are because of their patronage of the arts, something that plays a key role in the series.

So what exactly did Lorenzo de’ Medici die from? Was it cancer, gout, or some kind of poison that was slipped into his goblet? And what happens next? What can you watch on Netflix to fulfill your hunger for more Italian Renaissance drama.

HOW DID LORENZO DE’ MEDICI DIE ON MEDICI?

There’s a lot we do and don’t know for sure about the lives of the Medicis in Medieval Florence. One thing that remains unclear? Lorenzo de’ Medici’s exact cause of death. Many sources simply don’t come up with a reason for the 43-year-old’s demise, so barring a highly inadvisable trip to Florence, Italy to dig up his tomb, test his DNA, and comb through archives, we’ve got to rely on the one website on the internet that offers any explanation whatsoever.

Florence Inferno, a site devoted to analyzing Florentine history

Italian statesman and de facto ruler of Florence (1449–1492)

For other uses, see Lorenzo de' Medici (disambiguation).

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian:[loˈrɛntsodeˈmɛːditʃi]), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian: Lorenzo il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenzo held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states that stabilized political conditions on the Italian Peninsula for decades, and his life coincided with the mature phase of the Italian Renaissance and the golden age of Florence. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. On the foreign policy front, Lorenzo manifested a clear plan to stem the territorial ambitions of Pope Sixtus IV, in the name of the balance of the Italic League of 1454. For these reasons, Lorenzo was the subject of the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), in which his brother Giuliano was assassinated. The Peace of Lodi of 1454 that he supported among the various Italian states collapsed with his death. He is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

Youth

Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to lead the Republic of Florence and run the Medici Bank simultaneously. As one of the wealthiest men in Europe, the elder Cosimo spent a very large portion of his fortune on government and philanthropy, for example as a patron of the arts and financier of public works. Lorenzo's father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, was equally at the centre of Florentine civic life, chiefly as an art patron and collector, while Lorenzo's uncle, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, took care of the family's business interests. Lorenzo's mother, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, was a writer of sonne

16th-century Italian nobleman

Not to be confused with Lorenzo de' Medici, his grandfather.

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian:[loˈrɛntsodiˈpjɛːrodeˈmɛːditʃi]; 12 September 1492 – 4 May 1519) was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine de' Medici became Queen Consort of France, while his illegitimate son, Alessandro de' Medici, became the first Duke of Florence.

Early life

Lorenzo was born in Florence on 12 September 1492, a son of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini. His paternal grandparents were Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini. His maternal grandparents were Roberto Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo and his wife, Catherine of San Severino.

Career

Lorenzo II became lord of Florence in August 1513, after his uncle, Giuliano de' Medici, handed over control of its government. Ambitious by nature, Lorenzo II, despite being appointed Captain of the Florentine militia, lacked patience with Florence's republican system of government and thus, in 1516, convinced his uncle, Pope Leo X to make him Duke of Urbino at the age of 24. So began a conflict with the city's previous duke, Francesco Maria I della Rovere. During the protracted War of Urbino, Delle Rovere recaptured the city, only to have Medici — commanding a 10,000-man Papal army — in turn, retake the city. During battle, Lorenzo was wounded, which prompted him to retire to Tuscany. In September 1517, he regained Urbino via treaty; however, it remained under the Medici family's rule for only two years. In 1521 the duchy reverted to the Della Rovere family.

On 13 June 1518, Lorenzo married Madeleine de la Tour, daughter of the Count of Auvergne. The marriage produced a daughter, Catherine, in 1519. Catherine de' Medici went on to become Queen of France, via a marriage to the future King Henry II of France, arranged by the second Medici Pope

Abstract

The Medici Project is a paleopathological and historico-medical research, based on the exhumation of corpses of the Medici Family buried in the Medici Chapels (Florence, San Lorenzo). The scientific research carried out on these remains permits us to reconstruct habits and causes of death of members of this famous family of Italian Renaissance. The comparison between the literary sources and the paleopathological evidence is also important to reconstruct different therapies. Physicians, who assisted the most important persons of the Medici Family, have left a rich literature about their patients: the treatments were based on the use of plants and natural substances. Analyzing these sources is of unique importance and throws light on the therapeutical choices of the time.

Keywords: History of medicine, medici family, renaissance

The Medici Project

May 25, 2004: an international team of historians, paleopathologists, anthropologists and archaeologists descended upon the church of San Lorenzo, in Florence, officially starting the Medici Project, a paleopathological and historico-medical study, whose aim is to reconstruct the habits, diseases and causes of death of the Medici Family, who are buried in the Medici Chapels (D. Lippi. The Medici Project, Herald of Europe 3, 2006, pp. 122–5; D.Lippi, G. Fornaciari, GF Gensini. Evidence Based History of Medicine: The Experience of the Florence Medical School, Proceedings of the 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Budapest August 25–30, 2006, pp. 633–6; D. Lippi, Illacrimate sepolture. Curiosità e ricerca scientifica nella storia delle riesumazioni dei Medici, Firenze, FUP 2006).

The paleopathological study of the bodies would increase considerably knowledge currently available about diseases and life habits of the Medici Family, which were till now based on iconographical and literary sources. In fact, from archive data