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Isabella de' Medici

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Isabella de' Medici
Duchess o Bracciano
1565 painting o Isabella bi Alessandro-Allori.
Born31 August 1542
Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Dee'd16 Julie 1576 (aged 33)
Medici Villa, Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany
BuirialBasilica o San Lorenzo, Florence, Tuscany
SpousePaolo Giordano Orsini, Duke o Bracciano
IssueVirginio, Duke o Bracciano
Full name
Isabella Romola de' Medici
HooseMedici
FaitherCosimo I o Tuscany
MitherEleanora o Toledo
ReleegionRoman Catholicism

Isabella de' Medici (Isabella Romola 31 August 1542 – 16 Julie 1576) wis a member o the Hoose o Medici an a Princess o Tuscany. She wis later killed bi her husband.

Mairiage

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On 3 September 1558, Isabella mairit Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke o Bracciano o the Hoose o Orsini.

  1. Eleonora Orsini (1571 – 1634) mairit Alessandro Sforza di Santa Fiora, Duke o Segni.
  2. Virginio Orsini, Duke o Bracciano (September 1572 – 9 September 1615) mairit Flavia Peretti, a niece o Pape Sixtus V an haed issue.

See also

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Media relatit tae Isabella de' Medici at Wikimedia Commons

Soorces

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  • Langdon, Gabrielle (2006). Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3825-5.
  • Mori, Elisabetta (2011). L'onore perduto di Isabella de' Medici (in Italian). Milan: Garzanti. ISBN 978-88-11-74119-0.
  • Murphy, Caroline P. (2008). Murder of a Medici Princess. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531439-7.
  • Reiss, Sheryl; Wilkins, David (2001). Beyond Isabella: Secular women patrons of art in Renaissance Italy. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. ISBN 0-943549-88-4.