biography
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Lorenzino de' Medici
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known as Lorenzaccio
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pronunciation:
[lorayntseenoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1513–48)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. A member of a minor branch of the Medici family, he was an intellectual but also a violent eccentric who murdered his cousin Alessandro (1537) with whom he had stayed in Florence. He escaped to Bologna, then France and finally Venice, where he was murdered by hitmen sent by Cosimo de' Medici. His work includes poems, epistles, and a play, Aridosia, but his best-known work is the Apologia in praise of tyrannicide. He inspired Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio. |
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