Editing Pope Clement VII (section)

===Paternity of Alessandro de' Medici===
In 1510, while the Medici were living near Rome, a servant in their household—identified in documents as [[Simonetta da Collevecchio]]—became pregnant, ultimately giving birth to a son, [[Alessandro de' Medici]]. Nicknamed "il Moro" ("the Moor") due to his dark complexion, Alessandro was officially recognized as the illegitimate son of [[Lorenzo II de Medici]], but at the time and to this day, various scholars suggest that Alessandro was the illegitimate son of Giulio de' Medici.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/37dcb24c-0bcc-11e6-b0f1-61f222853ff3 |title=Review: 'The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici', by Catherine Fletcher |last=Lyons |first=Matthew |newspaper=Financial Times |date=29 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622183348/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/37dcb24c-0bcc-11e6-b0f1-61f222853ff3,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=intl&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F37dcb24c-0bcc-11e6-b0f1-61f222853ff3.html%3Fsiteedition%3Dintl&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app |archive-date=June 22, 2016 |access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref> The truth of his lineage remains unknown and debated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/africans-in-medieval-and-renaissance-art-duke-alessandro-de-medici/ |title=Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art: Duke Alessandro de' Medici |year=2016 |location=London |work=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] |access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref>

Regardless of his paternity, throughout Alessandro's brief life, Giulio—as Pope Clement VII—showed him great favoritism, elevating Alessandro over [[Ippolito de Medici]] as Florence's first hereditary monarch, despite the latter's comparable qualifications.<ref name=pbs>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/medici.html |title=Alessandro de Medici |last=de Valdes |first=Mario |work=The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families |access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref>