Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

Piero de ' Medici ( * 1416 in Florence, † December 2, 1469 Florence), also known as Piero il Gottoso ( " the Gouty " ), was the eldest son of Cosimo de' Medici and 1464-1469 Party tyrant of Florence. His most prominent children and successors were Lorenzo and Giuliano. Since 1444 he was married to Lucrezia Tornabuoni, they had four more children, of whom but two died very early.

Piero received by his father Cosimo a humanistic education, but he kept quite even medieval, especially chivalrous ways of thinking in which he had acquired in dealing with Burgundian business friends. Like his father before him or his son after him, had also Piero in Florence de jure official power, its wealth, by strong patronage and the last in 1458 in terms of the Medici institutionally insured party, however, he was de facto the leading citizens of Florence. He had 1465/66 to pass, as dissidents by Luca Pitti, the guide tried to usurp after the death of Cosimo de ' Medici, the most severe probation. More important Mitgrund to rescue and preservation of power was the alliance made ​​already under Cosimo, close to the Sforza of Milan.

Piero was an avid collector of rare books. He suffered all his life very much of a gout -like disease, so that he could no longer move virtually free of pain especially towards the end of his life. Therefore, at the latest in 1467 took over from his then 18-year- old son, Lorenzo the reunification of family and city. Piero died 1469.