He recognized the talent of the sixteen-year-old Giorgio Vasari of Arezzo and supported him to study in Florence.
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At Florence he commissioned a tapestry from cartoons by Andrea del Sarto and Raffaellino del Garbo, which is conserved in the diocesan museum at Cortona.
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With the young Alessandro and Ippolito de' Medici in tow, he attended the first performance of Niccolò Machiavelli's comedy La Mandragola, Vasari related.
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He built three more personal villas: one in the commune of Bettolle, one in Petrignano and the third in Piazzano, the closest to his official residence.
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Silvio was raised and educated at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici and became very close to Lorenzo's son Giovanni whom he followed even to the battlefront where they fought side by side in France and were both made prisoners.
Silvio Rodríguez | Silvio Soldini | Silvio Piola | Silvio Micali | Silvio Scaglia | Silvio Dante | Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico | Silvio Valenti Gonzaga | Silvio Santos | Silvio Pettirossi International Airport | Silvio Pellico | Silvio Orlando | Silvio Marzolini | Silvio Horta | Silvio Amadio | Silvio Vietta | Silvio Spann | Silvio Berlusconi's first government | Silvio Barbato | Silvio and Dorinda, from the pastoral "Il pastor fido" by Giovanni Battista Guarini |