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  2. List of banking families - Wikipedia

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    Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife ...

  3. House of Medici - Wikipedia

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    The Medici family came from the agricultural Mugello region [9] north of Florence, and they are first mentioned in a document of 1230. [10] The origin of the name is uncertain. Medici is the plural of medico, meaning "medical doctor". [11] The dynasty began with the founding of the Medici Bank in Florence in 1397.

  4. House of Borgia - Wikipedia

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    In series 4 of the sketch comedy TV show Horrible Histories, a song called "the Borgia Family" was featured in the section 'Radical Renaissance'. [27] The song is a parody of the theme song to the Addams Family. The family lore and artifacts are essential to the plot of the 1959 Disney film The Shaggy Dog. [citation needed]

  5. Orsini family - Wikipedia

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    The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: [1] Stephen II (752–757), Paul I (757–767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), [2] and Benedict XIII (1724–1730).

  6. Catherine de' Medici - Wikipedia

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    Catherine believed in the humanist ideal of the learned Renaissance prince whose authority depended on letters as well as arms. [119] She was inspired by the example of her father-in-law, King Francis I of France, who had hosted the leading artists of Europe at his court, and by her Medici ancestors. In an age of civil war and declining respect ...

  7. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects ...

  8. Florentine Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world around it, based on the local culture and humanism already highlighted ...

  9. Giorgione - Wikipedia

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    Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Venetian: Zorzi; 1477–78 [1] or 1473–74 [2] – 17 September 1510), [3] known as Giorgione (UK: / ˌ dʒ ɔːr dʒ i ˈ oʊ n eɪ,-n i / JOR-jee-OH-nay, -⁠nee, US: / ˌ dʒ ɔːr ˈ dʒ oʊ n i / jor-JOH-nee; Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne]; Venetian: Zorzon), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties.

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