Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590-1621)
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He ruled Tuscany for twelve years but handed the work to ministers. What keeps his name in circulation is the scientist he backed: Galileo, who'd once been his tutor, and who needed a Grand Duke willing to let him look up.
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Cosimo II de' Medici was born in May 1590, the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici and Christina of Lorraine. He became Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1609, at nineteen. Over the twelve years that followed, he let ministers run the machinery of state while he concerned himself with other matters. Chief among them: Galileo Galilei, who had taught him as a boy and whom Cosimo made his court mathematician and philosopher. That patronage gave Galileo shelter and funding during the years he peered through telescopes and articulated what he saw. Cosimo died in February 1621, at thirty, his reign a footno…
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