Lorenzo II de' Medici

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (12 September 1492 – 4 May 1519) – The Duke of Urbino Lorenzo II grew up in the shadow of his grandfather Lorenzo the Magnificent, the original Lorenzo de’ Medici, who he’s sometimes confused for. He lived a short but eventful life of 26 years as he sought to distinguish himself, survived by daughter Catherine de' Medici & his illegitimate son, Alessandro de' Medici, who later became Florence's first hereditary monarch. Impatient by nature, he persuaded his uncle Giuliano to make him lord of Florence at 21 and 3 years later in 1516, convinced his uncle, Pope Leo X to make him Duke of Urbino. Thus beginning the protracted War of Urbino with the city’s current Duke...View all