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May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. In the annals of history, few families have left as indelible a mark as the House of Medici. This remarkable banking family rose from obscurity to become the unofficial rulers of Florence, dominating the city‘s political, economic, and cultural life for three centuries.
May 19, 2024 · Soon afterward Savonarola gave his blessing to the dying Lorenzo. The legend that he refused Lorenzo absolution is disproved by documentary evidence. Medici rule did not long survive Lorenzo and was overthrown by the invasion of Charles VIII (1494). Two years before, Savonarola had predicted his coming and his easy victory.
May 25, 2024 · As he does so, the fatal blow intended for his back ends up cutting across his neck, and Lorenzo jumps up in pain, shock, and confusion. Chaos erupts as the young man stumbles back and draws his sword, his entourage leaping from their seats to rush to the aid of their capofamiglia.
6 days ago · During the 15th century, Florence was in ‘a state of permanent and irreversible crisis’ (p. 63) that the Medici exploited by governing through ‘an informal configuration of power’ (p. 62), which Lorenzo hoped to replace with a new constitution with himself as prince or gonfaloniere a vita.
May 18, 2024 · Francesco Guicciardini was a Florentine statesman, diplomat, and historian, author of the most important contemporary history of Italy, Storia d’Italia. Guicciardini was born of an aristocratic Florentine family that played a prominent role under Lorenzo de’ Medici (the Magnificent).
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May 27, 2024 · San Lorenzo is more than just a church – it‘s a living testament to the history and artistic brilliance of the Renaissance. Within its walls, one can trace the evolution of architecture from the early innovations of Brunelleschi to the mannerist complexity of Michelangelo.
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May 26, 2024 · Only 20 in 1469, when his father, Piero, died, Lorenzo was thrust into the political and diplomatic currents of the peninsula at a moment of general peace, leaving him free to engage in his true interest, the patronage of art and literature.
