Contessina de' Medici
Her very affectionate father, Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, wrote the following letter to her, when she was 10 years old: “Dear little Contessina, I am writing to tell you that, thank God, I am very well and have been getting better ever since I left. These regular baths are doing me a lot of good ... Be nice to Alfonsina [the wife of Contessina's eldest brother Piero] and keep her company; tell her from me to take great care of the baby [Cosimo], I hear that Monsignore [Contessina's brother Giovanni] and the other children have gone away. It is naughty of them to leave you alone, but I shall be back soon and stay with you and they can stay at the villa as long as they like. Spedaletto, July 31st, 1489.” (in: Lacy Collison-Morley: The early Medici. London 1935, pp. 189-190)
on 16. January 1478
on 29. June 1515
Lorenzo "il Magnifico" de' Medici (1449-1492)
Clarice Orsini (1453-1488), daughter of Jacopo Orsini of Monterotondo
Piero Ridolfi († 1525); marriage in the year 1493
- her daughter Emilia, who was married to Jacopo V. Appiani d'Aragona, the ruler of Piombino, on 22. August 1514
- her son Luigi, born on 28. August 1495, deceased on 18. May 1556
- her son Niccolò, born in the year 1501, deceased on 31. January 1550; Cardinal since 1517
- her son Lorenzo, born on 6. September 1503, deceased on 29. September 1576; he married Maria, a daughter of Filippo Strozzi († 1538) and Clarice de' Medici († 1528), in 1529
- bis 7.: three more children, who died shortly after birth or as infants