Maddalena de' Medici

Who was Maddalena de' Medici?

Maria Maddalena Romola de' Medici was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini.

Born in Florence, she was educated with her siblings to the humanistic cultures by figures such as Agnolo Poliziano. On February 25, 1487 she married Franceschetto Cybo, son of Pope Innocent VIII. Thenceforth Maddalena lived in Rome but, after her father's death, she resided also in Tuscany and Liguria.

Maddalena lived again mostly in Rome after the election of her brother Giovanni as Pope Leo X, and died there in 1528. She was buried in St. Peter's Basilica by order of her cousin, Pope Clement VII.