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Piero Soderini

1452–1522 · 15th century

Piero Soderini was a Florentine statesman elected gonfaloniere of justice for life in 1502, leading the republic restored after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494. With Niccolò Machiavelli as his secretary he created a citizen militia. When Spanish troops sacked Prato in 1512 he fled into exile, and the Medici returned to Florence.

Piero Soderini
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