Don Giovanni de' Medici
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Don Giovanni de' Medici (13 May 1567, in Florence – 19 July 1621, in Murano) was an Italian military commander, diplomat and architect.
Medici was born the
He was born 5 years after the death of his brother, Giovanni, and was given the same name. He moved to Spain where he began his military career.
In 1598 he was a
He married Livia del Vernazza, with whom he had two sons; Gianfrancesco Maria (1619–1689) and another that was born posthumously but died as an infant.
Giovanni was also a painter and an architect, and collaborated with
Patron of the arts
Don Giovanni took special care in dealing with artists, he was an architect, he designed the construction of the Chapel of the Princes and the Church of San Lorenzo, but he also had a special relationship with the commedia dell'arte, in fact from 1612 to 1621 he oversaw relations with the comedy troupe of Confidenti, with whom he had extensive correspondence with famous comedians Flaminio Scala and Nicholas Barbieri Beltrame in art, as with other patrons such as Gonzaga and the owners of theatres in which Confidenti had to act.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Conrad Lüdger; Johann Philipp Siebenkees (1797). The life of Bianca Capello, wife of Francesco de' Medici. London: Lee and Hurst. p. 78.
Further reading
- Dooley, Brendan (2014). The Mattress Maker's Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza. Cambridge, MA: ISBN 978-0-674-72466-2.