Piero Soderini
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Pier Soderini | |
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Head of state of Florence | |
Reign | May 1498 – 31 August 1512 |
Predecessor | Girolamo Savonarola |
Successor | Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici |
Born | Florence, Republic of Florence | 17 March 1451
Died | 13 June 1522 Rome, Papal States | (aged 71)
Father | Tommaso di Lorenzo Soderini |
Mother | Dianora Tornabuoni |
Piero di Tommaso Soderini (March 17, 1451 – June 13, 1522[1]), also known as Pier Soderini, was an Italian statesman of the Republic of Florence.
Biography
Soderini was born in
Soderini's rule proved moderate and wise, although he did not possess the qualities of a great statesman. He introduced a system of national
Grateful to France, which had assisted him, Soderini always took the French side in Italian politics. But in 1512 the Medici returned to Florence with the help of a Spanish army, deposed Soderini, and drove him into exile. He took refuge at Orašac (near Dubrovnik) in Dalmatia,[2] where he remained until the election of Pope Leo X, who summoned him to Rome and conferred many favours on him. Soderini lived in Rome for the rest of his life and worked for the good of Florence, to which he was never allowed to return.
He died in Rome in 1522 and was buried in the church of
References
- ^ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- ^ Margaretić, Marija, Zbornik Dubrovačkog primorja i otoka, Kulturno – prosvjetno društvo Primorac, Dubrovnik, 2006, ISSN 0353-5428, p 221
- ^ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Bibliography
- Creighton, Mandell (1887). A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation. Vol. IV: The Italian princes. 1464–1518. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 31, 91, 138–140, 156–160.
- Gelčić, Josip (1894). Piero Soderini profugo a Ragusa: memorie e documenti (in Italian). Ragusa: Carlo Pretner.
- Guicciardini, Francesco (1859). "Chapters 26–33". Storia fiorentina dai tempi di Cosimo de'Medici a quelli del Gonfaloniere Soderini. Opere inedite di F. G., Volume terzo. Firenze: Barbèra, Bianchi e comp. p. 403.
- Landucci, Luca (1883). Jodoco Del Badia (ed.). Diario fiorentino dal 1450 al 1516 (in Italian). G. C. Sansoni. pp. 222–335.
- Razzi, Silvano (1737). Vita di Piero Soderini gonfaloniere perpetuo della repubblica fiorentina (in Italian). Padova: Stamperia del Seminario.
- Schevill, Ferdinand (1963). Medieval and Renaissance Florence. Vol. II. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 461–470.
- Zaccaria, Raffaella. "Soderini, Piero". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Treccani. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
Acknowledgment
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Soderini, Piero". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- Silvano Razzi, Vita di Pier Soderini (Padua, 1737)
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