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Medici, Lucrezia de (c. 1544–1561)
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Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici and The Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century
by Maria Grazia Pernis (Author)Laurie Schneider Adams (Author)
©2006Monographs XIV, 182 Pages
History & Political Science
Summary
Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century is a fresh, new biography of a Renaissance woman who lived during the heyday of Medici power. A remarkable person in her own right, the author of religious poems and sacred narratives, as well as an accomplished businesswoman, Lucrezia was the mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandmother of two popes, and the great-great grandmother of Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France. This glimpse of her life and times is a window onto the political intrigues and intellectual achievements of Medici Florence.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 182
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820476452
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Tornabuoni, LucreziaLucrezia Tornabuoni de' MediciMedici powerCatherine de' MediciLorenzo de' Medici
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XIV, 182 pp., 5 fig.
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Biographical notes
Maria Grazia Pernis (Author)Laurie Schneider Adams (Author)
The Authors: Maria Grazia Pernis has a Columbia Ph.D. in art history. She is the author of Le Platonism de Marsile Ficin et la Cour d’Urbin, and the co-author with Laurie Schneider Adams of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant (Peter Lang, 1996). She has published several articles, including «The Young Michelangelo and Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Circle,» in Lorenzo de’ Medici: New Perspectives (Peter Lang, 1993). Pernis has also lectured widely on the influence of humanism and Neoplatonic philosophy on Renaissance art. Laurie Schneider Adams is Professor of Alessandra Mastronardi Donati (by birth) Lucrezia Donati was an Italian noblewoman and was born in Florence. She was accounted as the most beautiful and sophisticated woman of the city among people, and was Lorenzo the Magnificent's mistress. Her husband Niccolò Ardinghelli was a merchant who usually stayed in Constantinople to trade. After marrying Clarice Orsini, Lorenzo ends his relationship with her leaving her heartbroken. A year later Lorenzo seeks support from her husband and is denied partly due to her influence. Clarice lobbing for her husband's candidate approaches her, giving her poems Lorenzo wrote for her assuring her Lorenzo did love her once.  Lucrezia Donati
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Ardinghelli (by marriage)Early life[]
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1427–1482)
Lucrezia Tornabuoni (22 June 1427 – 28 March 1482) was an Italian noblewoman, wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, de facto Lord of Florence and his political adviser. Lucrezia had significant political influence during the rule of her husband and then of her son Lorenzo the Magnificent, investing in several institutions and improving relationships to support the needs of the poor. She was also a patroness of the arts who wrote several poems and plays.
Early life
Lucrezia was born in Florence, Italy on 22 June 1427. Her father was Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni, member of a noble family that could trace its lineage back 500 years. It is uncertain if her mother was her father's second wife, Marianna Guicciardini, known as Nanna, or the third, Francesca Pitti. Her brother Giovanni became a banker and diplomat.
Lucrezia was well-educated for a woman of her time. She was very capable in mathematics and finances, well-versed in literature, rhetoric, and theology, and read many texts in both Latin and Greek besides her native Italian. Lucrezia may be represented in three scenes in Ghirlandaio's frescos in the Tornabuoni Chapel: The Visitation, The Birth of the Baptist, and The Nativity of Mary.
Marriage
On 3 June 1444, Lucrezia married Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, son of Cosimo de' Medici, a wealthy banker and statesman from Florence. Her father was a friend and supporter of Cosimo, even through the latter's exile in 1434. The marriage and her dowry of 1200 florins helped to seal the alliance between their families. Lucrezia and Piero developed a good relationship and frequently wrote to each other while apart with tenderness and concern. She also became a good friend of her brother-in-law Giovanni.
Lucrezia and Piero ensured that their children acquired good taste in literary culture and the fine arts. They hired tutors to educate them in such subjects as politics, business, accountin