Piero Soderini

Timeline

1. 1502–1511Florence · TuscanySoderini served as the republic's lifelong Gonfaloniere, implementing administrative reforms and coordinating relations with France, the papacy, and the Holy Roman Empire. Under his rule Florence maintained its republican form but faced internal and external military pressure and factional strife.
2. 1512Florence · TuscanyIn 1512 Spanish troops supported the Medici restoration; Soderini was forced from office and expelled from the city, and the republican system became defunct in name, marking the end of Florence's late republican period.
3. 1512–1522Rome · LazioSoderini went into exile in Rome, spending his later years under papal protection and no longer directly participating in Florentine affairs. He died near Ripoli in 1522, and his republican political legacy was carried on by his colleagues and writers.