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Cosimo de' Medici

Giovanni de' Medici, the favourite son of Cosimo de' Medici


 

Giovanni de' Medici (1421-1463)

He became a really fat man and "having steadfastly refused to diet to lessen his great weight, died of a heart attack" in 1463. (in: Christopher Hibbert: The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. London 1974, p. 96)


 

Giovanni de' Medici (1421-1463)