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Cosimo III de' Medici
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Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
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I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see [that] paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.
Reported in Christopher Hibbet, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (New York: William Morrow & Co, 1975) ch. 23, pp. 292–93
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