Ferdinando I de' Medici

1549–1609

Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549-1609)

politician · Catholic priest · patron of the arts

Born in Florence

Contemporaries

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• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
• Michelangelo (1475–1564)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

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