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Unit 2
Grades 9-10
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'Il Moro': The Medici Duke Whose Mother's Origin Is Still Debated

Alessandro de' Medici, born in 1510 and known to contemporaries as "Il Moro" ("the Moor"), became in 1531 the first hereditary Duke of Florence, ending the Florentine Republic and establishing a Medici dukedom that would govern the city for more than two centuries afterward.…

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