Giovanni Salviati (24 March 1490 – 28 October 1553) was a Florentine diplomat and

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. He was

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in France, and conducted negotiations with the

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Biography

Salviati was born in

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Jacopo Salviati Jacopo Salviati (15 September 1461 – 6 September 1533) was a Florentine politician and son-in-law of Lorenzo de' Medici. On 10 September 1486 he married Lorenzo's daughter Lucrezia de' Medici, with whom he had ten children. The son of Giovan ...

, son of Giovanni Salviati and Maddalena Gondi, and

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, elder daughter of

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. In Rome, he was educated in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by Marcello Virgilio Adriani and Fra Zanobi Acciajuoli.

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, who raised him to the cardinalate in 1517, was Lorenzo's son, and therefore Giovanni's uncle. His brother

Bernardo Salviati Bernardo Salviati (17 February 1508 – 6 May 1568) was an Italian condottiero and Roman Catholic Cardinal. Salviati was born in Florence, the son of Jacopo Salviati and Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici, the sister of Giovanni de' Medici. The ye ...

and nephew

Anton Maria Salviati Antonio Maria Salviati (January 21, 1537 – April 26, 1602) was a Republic of Florence, Florentine Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography Salviati was born in Florence, son of Lorenzo Salviati and Costanza Conti, the nephew of cardinals Bernardo ...

also became cardinals. He was also Cousin of

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from whom he derived patronage. He held many posts. He was

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, and sub-dean of the

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. In 1525, he was sent as a legate to Madrid to negotiate the withdrawal of Imperial troops from the papal states and to help negotiate the release of the captured French King Francis I. In 1526, Salviati signed for his cousin,

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, the treaty formulating the

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which allied against

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. He became

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in 1543. He was appointed Administrator of Oloron Diocese in 1520. and attended the Papal conclave of 1549–50 as a

. He was on friendly terms with Machiavelli, writing to him. The Mannerist painter Cecchino (Francesco) Salviati (

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) took the name Salviati from Giovanni, who was his patron. He employed the composer

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