标题: Alessandro de' Medici [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-7-2016 15:09 标题: Alessandro de' Medici Alessandro de' Medici | A Dark Duke. Economist, May 7, 2016 http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21698226-dark-duke
(Catherine Fletcher, The Black Prince of Florence; The spectacular life and treacherous world of Alessandro de’ Medici. two publishers, 2016)
(b) "Different branches of the family had produced only two sons, Alessandro and Ippolito; both were illegitimate."
(i) Ippolito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito
(may refer to: "Ippolito de Medici - illegitimate son of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici")
(ii) Ippolito de' Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito_de%27_Medici
(1511 – 1535; Alessandro de' Medici caught him [Ippolito] and Catherine de' Medici in a private embrace)
(iii) Catherine de' Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici
(1519 – 1589; Pope Leo X (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici; uncle of Catherine's father) " intended to marry her to Ippolito de' Medici [age difference : 8]; wife of King Henry II of FRANCE [reign 1547 – 1559])
(c) Pope "Clement VII, who was waging war with Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor (and king of Spain), fell ill. To protect the family's power base, he made Ippolito, then 18, a cardinal" (So when Ippolito and catherine in private embrace, see (b)(ii), Catherine was at most 10 years old.)
(i) Pope Clement VII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VII
(1478 – 1534; pope 1523- 1534; born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici; The Sack of Rome [May 6, 1527] and English Reformation occurred during his papacy)
(ii) The Sack of Rome. Oxford University Press, May 6, 2012 (blog).
blog.oup.com/2012/05/the-sack-of-rome/