Alessandro de' Medici, nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic, was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. The first Medi
Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici, duke of Florence, painted by Pontormo, oil on canvas, c. 1534–1535, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Emblem of Alessandro de' Medici, based on Dürer's Rhinoceros. Motto: "Non vuelvo sin vencer" (old Spanish for "I shall not return without victory") (From Paolo Giovio's Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose, 1557)
Portrait of Alessandro de’ Medici, by Giorgio Vasari (1534).
Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici in the Uffizi.
The siege of Florence took place from 24 October 1529 to 10 August 1530, at the end of the War of the League of Cognac. At the Congress of Bologna, the Medici Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V ag
The Siege of Florence by Giorgio Vasari, 1558
Study of Fortification for the Porta al Prato of Ognissanti by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1529–1530. Michelangelo served as Governor of Fortifications through the duration of the siege.