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Oil portrait of man wearing lace ruff.

Detail from “Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany” by
Cristofano Allor. Circa 1608-1618.

Cosimo II de’ Medici (12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until 1621. He was the elder son of the then incumbent Grand Duke andChristina of Lorraine. He married Maria Magdalena of Austria, and had eight children.

For the majority of his eleven-year reign, he delegated the administration of Tuscany to his ministers. He is best remembered as the patron of Galileo Galilei, his childhood tutor. He died of tuberculosis in 1621.

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