Another man of this name contributed ten galleys to the Holy League at the Battle of Lepanto and married Eleanora of Toledo, the Duke of (*) Alba's sister, as part of the consolidation of the Hapsburg interest in Italy.
FIRST AND LAST NAME REQUIRED One man with this name rose to power thanks to his family's centrality in a marriage network according to a sociological analysis of political transformation by Padgett and Ansell, and although those authors show his faction was as patrician as its opponents, that man was known as the "hero of the new men." Another man of this name contributed ten galleys to the Holy League at the Battle of Lepanto and married Eleanora of Toledo, the Duke of (*) Alba's sister, as part of the consolidation of the Hapsburg interest in Italy. The first man of this name was exiled following the failure of a campaign against Lucca, but he triumphed over the Albizzi and Strozzi and returned in 1434. For 10 points, give this name shared by two Florentine rulers, the latter named Grand Duke of Tuscany and the former the grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
FIRST AND LAST NAME REQUIRED One man with this name rose to power thanks to his family's centrality in a marriage network according to a sociological analysis of political transformation by Padgett and Ansell, and although those authors show his faction was as patrician as its opponents, that man was known as the "hero of the new men."
Cosimo de Medici