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Episode 69: A Deadly Scandal

The reign of Grand Duke Francesco was inflicted with multiple scandals, but none were worse than the fates of the Grand Duke’s own sister and sister-in-law.

A portrait of Isabella de’ Medici by Alessandro Allori (c. 1550). Source: The Uffizi Gallery.
A portrait of a woman, likely Leonora di Toledo, by Alessandro Allori (date unknown). Source: Historical Art Museum, Vienna.
Francesco de’ Medici, by Alessandro Allori (early 1580s). Source: Private collection
An engraving depicting Pietro de’ Medici by Adrien Helweigh (1691). Source: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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