But I may say that Cosimo I's direct descendants occupied the throne (as it had now become) until the death of Gian Gastone, son of Cosimo III, who died in 1737.

Tuscany passed to Austria until 1801.

In 1807 it became French, and in 1814 Austrian again.

In 1860 it was merged in the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of the monarch who has given his name to the great new Piazza--Vittorio Emmanuele.
After Gian Gastone's death one other Medici remained alive: Anna Maria Ludovica, daughter of Cosimo III.

Born in 1667, she married the Elector Palatine of the Rhine, and survived until 1743.