Maria Salviati
Italian noblewoman
Died when: 44 years 165 days (533 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Maria Salviati (17 July 1499 – 29 December 1543) was a Florentine noblewoman, the daughter of Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici and Jacopo Salviati.
She married Giovanni delle Bande Nere and was the mother of Cosimo I de Medici.Her husband died 30 November 1526, leaving her a widow at the age of 27.
Salviati never remarried; after her husband's death she adopted the somber garb of a novice, which is how she is remembered today as numerous late portraits show her attired in black and white.
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