Alfonsina Orsini
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Alfonsina Orsini was the spouse of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici
from 1488 and the mother of Lorenzo II de' Medici. She was the daughter of Roberto Orsini, Conte Tagliacozzo and Catherine San Severino.
She is credited with a great influence ower the affairs of state. She governed The Republic of Firenze during the absence of her son in the period of 1515-1519. She was involved in the plans regarding the war between Florence and France, as well as in the plans of making a treaty. She also had oversight of Pope Leo's entry into Florence in November 1515.
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici
Piero de' Medici , called Piero the Unfortunate, was the Gran maestro of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494.-Life and death:...
from 1488 and the mother of Lorenzo II de' Medici. She was the daughter of Roberto Orsini, Conte Tagliacozzo and Catherine San Severino.
She is credited with a great influence ower the affairs of state. She governed The Republic of Firenze during the absence of her son in the period of 1515-1519. She was involved in the plans regarding the war between Florence and France, as well as in the plans of making a treaty. She also had oversight of Pope Leo's entry into Florence in November 1515.
Litterature
- Natalie Tomas: Alfonsina Orsini de'Medici and the ‘problem’ of a female ruler in early sixteenth-century Florence (2008)