Ferruccio, Francesco

Ferruccio, Francesco

▪ Italian military leader
Ferruccio also spelled  Ferrucci 
born August 14, 1489, Florence [Italy]
died August 3, 1530, Gavinana, near Pistoia, republic of Florence

      Florentine military leader who defended his native city in the last days of the republic of Florence against Pope Clement VII and Holy Roman emperor Charles V, who sought to restore the deposed Medici family. A statue of this popular hero still stands in Florence.

      First a merchant and then a city official, Ferruccio received his military training in 1527 in the mercenary Black Bands (Bande Nere). An able captain, he was appointed military commissioner at Empoli and mounted ambushes to harass the imperial troops advancing on nearby Florence. While he suppressed a revolt at Volterra (April 27, 1530), however, Empoli was taken by the enemy, and an illness then immobilized him in Pisa. When he finally attempted to relieve embattled Florence, he suffered defeat at Gavinana (Aug. 3, 1530). Wounded, he was captured and murdered by the enemy commander Fabrizio Maramaldo. Florence fell 10 days later.

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