Archduchess Magdalena of Austria
(1589-1631)
born 7 October 1589 Graz
died 1 November 1631 Passau
married 19 October 1608 Firenze
Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1609-1621
born 12 May 1590 Firenze
died 28 February 1621 Firenze
In 1619 she bought a villa that once had belonged to the Baroncelli
and then to the Salviati family. In her honour it was named the Villa Poggio
Imperiale. It was afterwards the home of Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Elisa
Baciocchi, and later became a girls' school.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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