Lorenzino de' Medici

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici called Lorenzino ( smaller Lorenzo) or Lorenzaccio ( evil Lorenzo) ( born March 23, 1514 Florence, † February 26, 1548 in Venice) from the younger branch of the ruling Medici family in Florence was the son of Pierfrancesco II. de ' Medici and Maria Soderini.

He murdered on January 6, 1537 its 1523 to 1527 and again since 1531 ruling in Florence relatives Alessandro de ' Medici, which was celebrated by the Republic of friendly party his hometown as tyrannicide, even if this last gasp of republicanism as a reaction one in his offended vanity can be seen after Alessandro had as his successor not his next of kin, provided in the male line, Lorenzino, but a more distant, that Cosimo de ' Medici, the later Grand Duke Cosimo I ( 1519-1574 ).

Lorenzino attempted murder two years later ( 1539) in his work Apologia in which he related thoughts Machiavelli to justify rhetorically brilliant.

It can be assumed that his murder was given ten years later by Cosimo I commissioned.

The murder generated a sustained response in the Arts:

  • Michelangelo created in 1540 a bust of Brutus because of the fact;
  • Vittorio Alfieri wrote an epic 1789: L' Etruria vendicata;
  • Alfred de Musset wrote in 1834 a drama: Lorenzaccio.
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