Giovanni dalle Bande Nere

Lodovico de' Medici (5 April 1498 – 30 November 1526), also known as Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, was an Italian condottiero.

Born in Forlì to Caterina Sforza and Giovanni il Popolano de' Medici, he became a successful and feared condottiero under his relatives, the Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII.

In the decades following Giovanni's death, Lorenzo de' Medici's legitimate male line descendants died out, and Giovanni's son Cosimo became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1569. His descendants would continue to hold the title until their own male-line extinction in 1737.

In 2012, he was included in a mnemonic set in Abstergo Industries' Project Legacy.