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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
But Lorenzo de'Medici, wary of Pazzi ambition ... Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after ...
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The Medici were well-known for their personal as well as professional dalliances.
Lorenzo's brother, Giuliano de'Medici, famously impregnated his mistress before his brutal murder in 1478. Their child, Giulio de'Medici, was later crowned Pope Clement VII. Clement took a black ...
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Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589)
Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence ... s position and the couple eventually had seven surviving children. In 1536, the duke of Orléans became heir to the ...