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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 41 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO, 210 C) See also:FERDINAND I., Pietro, See also:Isabella, C) See also:Virginia, 1541-1587 0w+ 1549-1609 1554-1604 1542-1576 {o --Cesare =1. See also:Joanna:- y =Cristina of =Eleonora =See also:Paolo P d'See also:Este, of See also:Austria, -Ha See also:Lorraine, of See also:Toledo, See also:Giordano 0- See also:duke of f 7578; " -• t 1537• t 1576. See also:Orsini. is See also:Modena. 2. Bianca a„ Q, See also:Cappello, '~ N t r~87• I I I {} I Maria, t1642 ----See also:Henry IV., See also:king of See also:France. Co D 0 wo I I I ! 1 I I I Giovanni, 1467-1498 =Caterina See also:Sforza Riario, t 1509. Giovanni delle Bande Nere, 1498-1526 =Maria Salviati, t 1543. Cos1MO I., 1519-1574, =1. Eleonora of Toledo, f 1562. 2. Camilla Martelli.

Cosimo II., n Caterina= Claudia 1590-1621 -I. 4' - . ~r Ferdinand =1. Federigo =Maria ' o o c g $ See also:

Gonzaga, della Rovere, Maddalena a a o duke of hereditary of Austria, • c • a See also:Mantua. See also:prince of ' f 1631. p See also:Urbino; Lorenzo, 1305-1440 =Ginevra See also:Cavalcanti, See also:Pier Francesco, t 1467 -= Laudomia Acciaitioli. ft. 2. See also:Leopold of See also:Austrian Laudomia. Maddalena Giuliano See also:Piero =Roberto See also:bishop of See also:Strozzi. Strozzi. See also:Beziers. Lorenzo, t 1503 Semiramide See also:Appiani. Pier Francesco, f 1525 =Maria See also:Soderini.

Tyrol. FERDINAND II., Francesco, Mattia, Leopoldo, Giovanni See also:

Anna Margherita 1610-1670 t 1634. f 1667. See also:cardinal, Carlo, Ferdinand =Odoardo See also:Vittoria =Vittoria della t 1675. cardinal, of Austrian See also:Farnese . della Rovere. Rovere, f 1694. f 1063. Tyrol. duke of' See also:Parma. I i Cosnlo III., 1642-1723 Francesco Maria, 1660-1711 (cardinal until 1709) =See also:Marguerite See also:Louise of See also:Orleans, t 1721. Eleonora Gonzaga. Ferdinand, 1663-1713 GIOVAN GASTONE, 1671-1737 Anna Maria Luisa, 1667-1743 =Violante of See also:Bavaria, t 1731. =Anna Maria of See also:Saxe-See also:Lauenburg, f 174r. = See also:John See also:William of the See also:Palatinate. Cosimo had a passing See also:idea of reconstituting the Florentine See also:republic, but, this See also:design being discountenanced by the Euro- pean See also:powers, he determined to See also:transfer the See also:succession, after the See also:death of Giovan Gastone, to his See also:sister Anna Maria Louisa, who in fact survived him. For this purpose he proposed to annul the patent of See also:Charles V., but the powers objected to this arrangement also, and by the treaty of '1718 the quadruple See also:alliance of See also:Germany, France, See also:England and See also:Holland decided that Parma and See also:Tuscany should descend to the See also:Spanish See also:Infante See also:Don See also:Carlos. The See also:grand-duke made energetic but fruitless protests.

Cosimo III. had passed his eightieth See also:

year at the See also:time of his decease in See also:October 1723, and was succeeded by his son Giovan Gastone, then aged fifty-three. The new See also:sovereign was in See also:bad See also:health, worn out by dissipation, and had neither ambition nor aptitude for See also:rule. His See also:throne was already at the disposal of See also:foreign powers, and his only individuals; while the grand-duke, compelled to pass the greater See also:part of his time in See also:bed, vainly sought diversion in the See also:company of buffoons, and was only tormented by perceiving that all the See also:world disposed of his throne without even asking his See also:advice. And when, after prolonged opposition, he had resigned himself to accept Don Carlos as his successor, the latter led a Spanish See also:army to the See also:conquest of See also:Naples, an event afterwards leadrAg to the See also:peace of 1735, by which the Tuscan succession was transferred to Francesco II., duke of Lorraine, and See also:husband of Maria See also:Theresa. Giovan Gastone was finally obliged to submit even to this. See also:Spain withdrew her garrisons from Tuscany, and Austrian soldiers took their See also:place and swore fealty to the grand-duke on the 5th of See also:February 1737. He expired on the 9th of See also:July of the same year. Such was the end of the younger See also:branch of the See also:Medici, which had found Tuscany a prosperous See also:country, where See also:art, letters, See also:commerce, See also:industry and See also:agriculture flourished, Giovan Oilstone. and See also:left her poor and decayed in all ways, drained by See also:taxation, and oppressed by See also:laws contrary to every principle of See also:sound See also:economy, downtrodden by the See also:clergy, and burdened by a weak and vicious See also:aristocracy.

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