Lelio Pecci, signore di Argiano

Lelio was a Novesco, a doctor in utroque iure (that is, in both canon and civil law), a jurist, and a teacher at the university in Siena. A member of the pro-Spanish faction in Siena, Lelio held several important offices from 1537 until the year of his death. Temporarily exiled in 1557 (presumably to his countryside possessions) because of his pro-Medicean views, he was quickly reappointed to the government. He was one of the four Sienese representatives that brought Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici the unconditional surrender of the city in 1559.

Genealogia dei Conti Pecci, Signori di Argiano, Pisa, 1880, p.54.