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===Early life===
Giovanni Angelo Medici was born in [[Milan]] on 31 March 1499 as the second of eleven children to Bernardino Medici and Clelia Serbelloni.<ref name="catholic">
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Giovanni Medici was the younger brother of [[Condottieri|condottiero]] [[Gian Giacomo Medici]], and the maternal uncle of [[Charles Borromeo]].<ref name=John>{{Cite web |url=https://www.saint-mike.org/library/papal_library/piusiv/biography.html |title=John, Eric. ''The Popes'', Hawthorne Books, New York |access-date=5 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606212334/http://saint-mike.org/library/papal_library/piusiv/biography.html |archive-date=6 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Medici studied philosophy and medicine in [[Pavia]].

After studying at [[University of Bologna]] and acquiring a reputation as a [[jurist]] he obtained his doctorate in both [[canon law|canon]] and civil law on 11 May 1525. Medici went in 1527 to [[Rome]], and as a favourite of [[Pope Paul III]] was rapidly promoted to the governorship of several towns, the [[archbishopric of Ragusa]] (1545–1553),<ref>Bartolomeo Scappi, ''The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L'Arte Et Prudenza D'Un Maestro Cuoco'', Transl. Terence Scully, (University of Toronto Press, 2008), 688.</ref> and the vice-legateship of Bologna.