Borghese Petrucci was an Italian politician, who ruled the
Republic of Siena
The Republic of Siena ( it, Repubblica di Siena, la, Respublica Senensis) was a historic state consisting of the city of Siena and its surrounding territory in Tuscany, central Italy. It existed for over 400 years, from 1125 to 1555. During its e ...
from 1512 to 1516.
Early life and family
Petrucci was born in
Siena
Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.
The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centur ...
in 1490, eldest son of
Pandolfo Petrucci
Pandolfo Petrucci (14 February 1452 – 21 May 1512) was a ruler of the Italian Republic of Siena during the Renaissance.
Biography
Born and raised in Siena, a member of an aristocratic family, Petrucci was exiled from his home in 1483 for be ...
and Aurelia Borghese, daughter of Niccolò Borghese and brother of Cardinal
Alfonso Petrucci. Borghese was presumably named in honor of his maternal grandfather.
Ruler of Siena
He does not appear in the sources with official duties until on 6 February 1512, when his father, now ill and near death, decided to make him the city's ruler. The death of Pandolfo occurred May 21, 1512 and Borghese became the "Primus" of Siena and Monte dei Nove. Favored in government by his brother
Alfonso, the Cardinal of Saint Theodore, he exercised the functions of government in a confrontation between the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Venice. He was an ally of the Kingdom of France, after the agreements concluded at Blois in 1513. Upon election of Giovanni de Medici as
Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X ( it, Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.
Born into the prominent political an ...
, Petrucci tried to maintain Siena's independence allying with the Kingdom of Spain in 1511.
1516 coup
Siena was wedged between the
Republic of Florence
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and the
Papal States
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, and maintained ties between Petrucci and the
Baglioni of Perugia. Leo X, unable to occupy the territories directly, facilitated a coup on 8 March 1516, by
Raffaello Petrucci
Raffaello Petrucci (1472 in Siena – 11 December 1522, in Rome) was a Cardinal and Roman Catholic bishop.
Biography
He was born in Siena, circa 1472. He was the son of Giacoppo Petrucci. Since 1494, the year of the Medici expulsion from Florenc ...
,
Bishop of Grosseto
The Diocese of Grosseto ( la, Dioecesis Grossetana) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino, in Tuscany. Its current bishop is Giovanni Roncari, OFMCap.s>Ott ...
and lord of Castel S. Angelo.
Banishment
Borghese Petrucci was banished from Siena in May 1516 and moved to Naples, where, in the years following, he was named Baron. The date of his death is unknown.
References
*Gattoni M., Pandolfo Petrucci and foreign policy of the Republic of Siena (1487–1512), Siena, 1997 Cantagalli
*Gattoni M., Leo X and the geo-politics of the Papal States (1513–1521), Vatican City, Vatican Archives Collectanea (47), 2000;
*Gattoni M., Siena and giants. The clash between France and Spain in Lombardy in the letters of Aldello Placidi, orator in Rome, Siena (1513–1515), in Bulletin of National History Senese CIV (1997), p. 377-402;
*Gattoni M., Siena and Spanish dominance. The legation of Alessandro Borghesi Raimondo Cardona, Viceroy of Naples (September–October 1512), in Bulletin of the History Senese country, CII (1995), p. 464-481;
*Lusini V., of a document concerning Raphael Petrucci, castellan of Castel S. Angel in Siena Bulletin of National History, The (1894), p. 117-123;
*Mengozzi N., Cardinal Raphael Petrucci of Siena, in Siena Bulletin of National History, XX (1913), p. 147-157;
*Terziani R., The Government of Siena from Medieval to Modern. Continuity Republican at the time of Petrucci (1487–1525) by Betti Publishing, Siena, 2002, reprinted 2006;
*I. Ugurgieri-Azzolini, pumps Siena, Pistoia 1649
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1490 births
Year of death missing
Politicians from Siena
Lords of Italy
Borghese
The House of Borghese is a princely family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence in the 13th century and held offices under the ''commune''. During the 16th century, ...