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See also:PIERO See also:SODERINI (1450-1513) , Florentine statesman, was elected gonfalonier for See also:life in 1502 by the Florentines, who wished to give greater stability to their republican institutions, which had been restored after the See also:expulsion of See also:Piero de' See also:Medici and the martyrdom of See also:Savonarola . His See also:rule proved moderate and See also:wise, although he had not the qualities of a See also:great states-See also:man . He introduced a See also:system of See also:national See also:militia in the See also:place of See also:foreign mercenaries, and during his See also:government the See also:long See also:war with See also:Pisa was brought to a See also:close with the See also:capture of that See also:city by the Florentines in 1509 . Grateful to See also:France, who had assisted him, he always took the See also:French See also:side in See also:Italian politics . But in 1512 the Medici with the help of a See also:Spanish See also:army returned to See also:Florence, deposed See also:Soderini and drove him into See also:exile . He took See also:refuge at See also:Ragusa in See also:Dalmatia, where he remained until the See also:election of See also:Pope See also:Leo X., who summoned him to See also:Rome and conferred many favours on him . Soderini lived in Rome, working for the See also:good of Florence, to which he was never allowed to return, until his See also:death . |
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