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Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1610 - 1670

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Ferdinando II de' Medici (14 July 1610 – 23 May 1670) was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de' Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria. He was remembered by his contemporaries as a man of culture and science, actively participating in the Accademia del Cimento, the first scientific society in Italy, formed by his younger brother, Leopoldo de' Medici. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany has received more than 274,687 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 36 in 2019). Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is the 3,031st most popular politician (down from 1,933rd in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 705th in 2019) and the 207th most popular Italian Politician.

Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is most famous for his patronage of the arts. He was a patron of Niccolo Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Jacopo da Pontormo.

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Over the past year Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany has had the most page views in the with 31,341 views, followed by Italian (17,527), and Spanish (6,944). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (451.05%), Latin (54.30%), and Ukrainian (46.55%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 3,031 out of 19,576. Before him are Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Boris Shcherbina, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Deiphobus, and Ernest, Elector of Saxony. After him are Lluís Companys, Xanana Gusmão, Laurent Gbagbo, Topa Inca Yupanqui, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 2. Before him is Pope Alexander VIII. After him are Adriaen van Ostade, Jacob Kettler, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, David Teniers the Younger, Louise Moillon, Paul Scarron, Ivan Sirko, Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Oboi, and Li Yu. Among people deceased in 1670, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 6. Before him are John Amos Comenius, Frederick III of Denmark, Henrietta of England, Johann Rudolf Glauber, and Louis Le Vau. After him are Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Salomon van Ruysdael, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Giovanna Garzoni, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 992 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucia Bosè (1931), Stesichorus (-630), Luigi Einaudi (1874), Fulvia (-77), Juliana of Nicomedia (285), and Franco Columbu (1941). After him are Saint Cajetan (1480), Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804), Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), Jacopo della Quercia (1374), Adelaide of Austria (1822), and Alessandro Marcello (1673).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 207. Before him are Lucilla (150), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870), Giovanni Giolitti (1842), Luigi Einaudi (1874), and Fulvia (-77). After him are Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804), Alfonso IV of Aragon (1299), Enrico De Nicola (1877), Publius Cornelius Scipio (-260), Occhiali (1519), and Edda Mussolini (1910).

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