Title: House of Medici
Content: generations of the Medici — Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo — ruled over Florence through the greater part of the 15th century. They clearly dominated Florentine representative government without abolishing it altogether. These three members of the Medici family had great skills in the management of so "restive and independent a city" as Florence. When Lorenzo died in 1492, however, his son Piero proved quite incapable of responding successfully to challenges caused by the French invasion of Italy in 1492, and within two years, he and his supporters were forced into exile and replaced with a republican government. Piero de' Medici

Title: Gherardini family
Content: Gherardini family The Gherardinis of Montagliari (or Florence) are a family that is still thriving. Between the 9th and 14th centuries, this family played an important role in Tuscany. Its influence was also felt in the Veneto and Emilia regions between the 16th and 18th centuries and during the Italian Risorgimento. The family’s restless and fighting nature has aroused the curiosity of many historians of the Middle Ages. Originating from the feudal tradition, it was one of the founding families of the Republic of Florence. The family took part in Florence's political life between 1100 and 1300. In 1300 it

Title: Simonetti family
Content: conservative in their studies and researched documentation up to the beginning of the 13th century, still older documentation survived including documents related to "Ranerio Simonecti" (Raniero Simonetti), a Florentine nobleman who was alive in 1188 and who was also mentioned by E. Gamurrini. Vernon also studied the family’s lordship of parts of the Val d’ Elsa and the castle of Colle. According to Villani the family was forced to renounce all its titles in Florence and was reduced to "popolani" (common citizens). The same happened in Lucca, by the beginning of the 15th century they had lost all prerogatives of

Title: Della Rovere
Content: Tuscany. They had two children: Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest reigning monarch, and Francesco Maria de' Medici, a prince of the Church. Among the many people who did not belong to this family, but bore the same name, are: and various artists, including: Della Rovere The Della Rovere family (; literally "of the oak tree") was a noble family of Italy. It had humble origins in Savona, in Liguria, and acquired power and influence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes: Francesco Della Rovere, who ruled as Sixtus IV from 1471 to 1484) and his nephew Giuliano,

Title: Corsini family
Content: return to Rome. Amerigo (1411) was the first arch-bishop of Florence. At the end of the 15th century the political influence of the Corsini family decreased, mainly because of the seizure of power carried out by the Medici family. Though some of the Corsinis opposed the Medici, the family as a whole continued to flourish in business and politics under Medici rule, acquiring titles, lands, and offices. Filippo (1538–1601) and Bartolomeo (1545–1613) consistently increased the wealth of the family thanks to their large and well organised web of commercial desks around Europe. It was connected with a very fast private

Question: Which family ruled Florence for three centuries from 1434?
Answer: Medici