How did Catherine de’ Medici become an orphan as an infant?

Catherine de’ Medici became an orphan as an infant because both of her parents, Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, duca di Urbino and Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne, died within weeks—or, as some sources indicate, days—of her birth. Following their deaths, she was raised and educated by nuns in Florence and Rome.12