Persons known by name
Medici, Ippolito de'
- 1511-03 – 1535-08-10.
- first protector / patron of the Accademia della Virtù in the 1530s [?]
- member of the Accademia dei Vignaiuoli
- portrait by Tizian (today at Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
- is reported to have had a liaison with the very young Giulia Gonzaga
- Ippolito was educated, among others, by Pietro Bembo
- In 1523 his uncle Giulio de' Medici = Pope Clement VII, chose G. P. Della Fosse (Pierio Valeriano) as Ippolito's teacher.
- In 1523 Valeriano was supported by Paolo Giovio, Claudio Tolomei and Francesco Maria Molza
- Ippolito's court in Rome (up to 300 persons) became the nucleus of the Accademia della Virtù, but it is not sure whether the Accademia became a formal institution before Ippolito's death in 1535.
- among this entourage was also the lutenist Francesco Canova (= Francesco da Milano)
- employed also Giorgio Vasari
- After 1535, this entourage was taken over by Pope Paul III and his grandson Alessandro Farnese.
- In 1529, he was counted among the most important collectors (not only) of antiquities in Rome, owning a (yet unknown) number of statues and other (ancient) pieces of art.
- DBI
- Giovio about Ippolito: [Giovio (2006)] = Giovio, Paolo; Minonzio. F. (ed.): Elogi degli uomini illustri. – Torino: 2006, [about Ippolito de' Medici: 867–870, 887ff.]
- on his visit to the important meeting between Clemens VII and François I in Marseile in 1532/3 he was accompanied by Claudio Tolomei, Molza and Giovio (among others, certainly, maybe also Francesco Canova da Milano who stayed in France for several years)
