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Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence

1510 - 1537

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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior line of the family to lead the city. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence has received more than 965,968 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 32 in 2019). Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence is the 1,848th most popular politician (down from 1,570th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Italy (down from 590th in 2019) and the 118th most popular Italian Politician.

Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, was most famous for his patronage of the arts. He was a generous patron of artists, poets, and musicians.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence ranks 1,848 out of 19,576Before him are Hongzhi Emperor, Svatopluk I of Moravia, Isetnofret, Felix Yusupov, Yun Posun, and Palmiro Togliatti. After him are Walter Schellenberg, Paul Doumer, Canute IV of Denmark, Wang Jingwei, Olof Skötkonung, and Pausanias of Orestis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence ranks 2Before him is Ambroise Paré. After him are Mikael Agricola, Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Renée of France, Jacopo Bassano, Aloysius Lilius, François Clouet, Gonzalo Pizarro, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Elena Glinskaya, and Túpac Huallpa. Among people deceased in 1537, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence ranks 2Before him is Jane Seymour. After him are Charles, Duke of Vendôme, Lorenzo di Credi, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Gerolamo Emiliani, Pedro de Mendoza, Madeleine of Valois, Jörg Breu the Elder, Lempira, and Thomas Murner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence ranks 678 out of 5,161Before him are Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Gianni Rivera (1943), Pietro da Cortona (1596), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Patrizia Reggiani (1948), and Palmiro Togliatti (1893). After him are Euhemerus (-330), Silvio Piola (1913), Joanna I of Naples (1326), Eugenio Montale (1896), Francesco Totti (1976), and Gianluigi Buffon (1978).

Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence ranks 118Before him are Galeazzo Ciano (1903), Desiderius (710), Catherine Cornaro (1454), Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (1810), Henry of Germany (1211), and Palmiro Togliatti (1893). After him are Conrad of Montferrat (1146), Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562), Agathocles of Syracuse (-361), Pescennius Niger (135), Charles Albert of Sardinia (1798), and Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759).