Medici, Lorenzino de'

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Medici, Lorenzino de' (lōrāntsē`nō dā mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), 1515–47, member of the cadet branch of the Medici family. A boon companion of Alessandro de' Medici Medici, Alessandro de' , 1510?–37, duke of Florence (1532–37); probably an illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino. His prominence began when Pope Clement VII, then head of the Medici family succeeded (1530) in restoring the Medici to power
..... Click the link for more information. , he secretly plotted the duke's murder—possibly out of republican convictions. With a hired assassin, he stabbed Alessandro to death (1537) and fled to Venice, where he was eventually assassinated on the orders of Cosimo I de' Medici, the successor to Alessandro. He is the hero of Alfred de Musset's drama, Lorenzaccio (1833).

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