Luigi de' Medici
Prime Minister of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
In office 27 June 1816 – 25 January 1830
Preceded by	Tommaso di Somma
Succeeded by	Tommaso di Somma
In office June 1833 – 25 January 1830
Preceded by	Tommaso di Somma
Succeeded by	Donato Tommasi
Personal details
Born	(1759-04-21)21 April 1759 Naples, Campania, Italy
Died	January 25, 1830(1830-01-25) (aged 70) Madrid, Spain

Luigi de' Medici (21 April 1759 - 25 January 1830) was an Italian nobleman, legal scholar, diplomat and statesman, who served as Prime minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the legal representative at the Congress of Vienna.

Early life

He belonged to the Neapolitan branch of the princely Florentine House of Medici, a cadet branch founded in 1567 by Bernadetto de' Medici after he acquired the vast fief of Ottaviano. Luigi was born as a younger son of Michele de' Medici (fifth Prince of Ottaviano and fifth Duke of Sarno) (1719-1770) and his wife Carmela Filomarino (1725-1805).^[1]

Biography

Luigi de' Medici lived and worked through some of the most tumultuous periods of the Kingdom of Naples: straddling the final stages of the reactionary reforms of Sir John Acton; the short-lived Parthenopean Republic proclaimed in Naples by Napoleon in 1799; the Sanfedismo (its fall); the retreat of the Bourbon court to Palermo under English protection after Napoleon took Naples a second time (1806); their restoration; and the eventual suppression of the Sicilian constitution and autonomy when the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were unified into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816).

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