Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)

Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence

Duke of Florence from 1532 to 1537

Alessandro de' Medici, nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic, was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last…