He died in 1574, succeeded by his eldest surviving son Francesco, whose inability to produce male heirs led to the succession of his younger brother, Ferdinando, upon his death in 1587.

( from left to right ) Maria Maddalena of Austria | The Grand Duchess Maria Maddalena, Cosimo II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | The Grand Duke Cosimo II, and their elder son, the future Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | Ferdinando II

Cosimo's elder son, Ferdinando, was not yet of legal maturity to succeed him, thus Maria Maddalena and his grandmother, Christina of Lorraine, acted as regents.

Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria di Savoia was born in Turin, the eldest son of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, King of Sardinia and of his wife Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain.

The eldest son Ferdinando, the fifth Earl, was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Strange in 1589.

Ferdinando, a lover and patron of music, was the son and heir of Cosimo III, who was one of the last of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

: Christofori Bartolomeo of Padua died in Florence [...] was the famous harpsichord maker, a distinguished restorer rendering even better good instruments made by other past masters and he was also the inventor of harpsichords with hammers, which produce a different quality of sound both on account of the hammer striking the chord and the completely different internal structure of the body of the instrument, not visible from the outside [...] the best instruments that he made were for Ferdinando de ' Medici Great Prince of Tuscany, his protector and son of the Grand Duke Cosimo III.

Her son Cosimo II died in 1621, leaving his ten-year old son Ferdinando as grand duke.

* March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena ( born 1696 ), Italian designer, second son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, most distinguished artist of the Galli-Bibiena family

His only son to survive infancy was deaf and dumb but his daughter married Ferdinando Hastings and became Countess of Huntingdon.

Both his son Ferdinando, the second Lord, and grandson, Thomas, the third Lord, served as prominent military commanders in the cause of Parliament during the Civil War.

He married Frances Dudley, 6th Baroness Dudley, daughter of Sir Ferdinando Dudley, eldest son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley ( see the Baron Dudley for earlier history of the Sutton family ).

The colony angered the king by purchasing the claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges to portions of Maine in 1677, a territory Charles had intended to acquire for his son, the Duke of Monmouth.

His death, while his elder son, Ferdinando, was still a minor, prompted a regency.

Ferdinando II died in 1670, succeeded by his elder surviving son Cosimo.

The future of the dynasty itself painted a similar picture: Cosimo's eldest son, Ferdinando, was an alcoholic and epileptic, while his younger son, Gian Gastone, according to historian Paul Strathern, was simply not appropriate material for the role of sovereign to the collapsing grand duchy.

Bocconi University was founded in 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi and was named after his son, who died in the Battle of Adwa during the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

Dudley's legitimate son, Ferdinando, predeceased him, leaving a daughter Frances.

* Guitar around 1810 ( photos ) According to Philip James Bone's book The guitar and mandolin: biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments ( p. 70, 71 ), this instrument was presented by Ferdinando Carulli to his son Gustave Carulli.

The son of George William Fairfax, and Isabella McNeill, grandson of Ferdinando Fairfax, and great-grandson of Bryan Fairfax, he was born at the family seat of Mount Eagle, Virginia.

The design and construction of the Fort were entrusted to architect Bernardo Buontalenti, the chief architect for both Cosimo I and his son, Ferdinando.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.

His brother Alessandro was cardinal and Papal legate, and another brother, Ferdinando ( died March 4, 1660 ) acquired the assets of the other line of San Gemini.

The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori ( 1655 – 1731 ) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de ' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments.

He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto.

The castle of the Sanseverino in Colorno was turned into a luxurious summer palace by Ferdinando Bibiena.

The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer ( a score of which was owned by Beethoven ).

The present façade was built in 1732 – 1734 by the architect Ferdinando Fuga on the orders of Pope Clement XII Corsini, whose coat-of-arms, trumpeted by two Fames, still surmounts the roofline balustrade, as in Piranesi's view.

* The Palazzo della Consulta hosts today the Constitutional Court, and was erected by Ferdinando Fuga for Pope Clement XII directly opposite Palazzo del Quirinale.

Henry explicitly stated that he would defend Tuscany from Spanish aggression, but later reneged, after which Ferdinando was forced to marry his heir, Cosimo, to Maria Maddalena of Austria to assuage Spain ( where Maria Maddalena's sister was the incumbent Queen consort ).

Upon the death of the last Duke of Urbino ( Francesco Maria II ), instead of claiming the duchy for Ferdinando, who was married to the Duke of Urbino's granddaughter and heiress, Vittoria della Rovere, they permitted it to be annexed by Pope Urban VIII.

Bagheria was the birthplace of many well-known 20th century figures: poet Ignazio Buttitta, photographer Ferdinando Scianna, artists Renato Guttuso and Nino Garajo, and film director Giuseppe Tornatore.

In the first decades of the 16th century the last descendent of the Sanseverino princes, Ferdinando Sanseverino, was in conflict with the viceroy of the king of Spain, mainly because of his opposition to the Inquisition, causing the ruin of the whole family and the beginning of a long period of decadence for the city.

In baroque style of the 17th century, was rebuilt by the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice.

The first opera based on the play, Il duca di Atene, was an opera buffa with a libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini and music by Ferdinando Bertoni.

A Bridal March was composed for the occasion by Ferdinando Paer.

Charles Emmanuel IV ( Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria ; 24 May 1751 – 6 October 1819 ) was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802.

Victor Emanuel II ( Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso ; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878 ) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

She was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, who had been poisoned because of his closeness to the throne of England.