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Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to lead the Republic of Florence and run the Medici Bank simultaneously. As one of the wealthiest men in Europe, the elder Cosimo spent a very large portion of his fortune on government and philanthropy, for example as a patron of the arts and financier of public works. [7]
Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), or Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, banker, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and patron of Renaissance culture. Lorenzo de' Medici may also refer to:
With Lorenzo's death on 8 April 1492, the succession passed to his 20-year-old son Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (1472–1521). [9] Piero had no talent for running the bank and depended on his secretary and his great-uncle Giovanni Tornabuoni to handle everything. The two mismanaged the bank and balked the new ministro's, Giovambattista Bracci ...
Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492–1519), his grandson, to whom Machiavelli dedicated The Prince Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, aided by Lorenzo de' Medici, takes away a girl under her brother's nose. He wishes to complain to the duke, but it is the duke who is taking her away. In Lorenzaccio's palace, his uncle Bindo Altoviti and Venturi, a gentleman, wish to know from Lorenzaccio whether he will join their conspiracy against ...
[citation needed] In 1449 on the occasion of the birth of Lorenzo de' Medici Lo Scheggia painted the Desco da parto with the Triumph of Fame now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [1] Lo Scheggia died in 1486 and was buried in the basilica of Santa Croce.
Lorenzo de' Medici, wearing a tunic with a collar and ermine sleeves, is represented seated, in profile, with a distant gaze, his face slightly bent, giving him more the attitude of a thinker or a philosopher than of a political leader. Lorenzo is surrounded by various ancient objects bearing sentences in Latin.
Benozzo Gozzoli, fresco in the Magi Chapel (1459), a celebration of the Medici family's power.. During the 1430s, Cosimo de' Medici began to take political action, bringing in men he trusted, while he remained in the second line, but the confrontation with Florence's other powerful families, such as the Albizzi and the Strozzi backfired on him and he was forced into exile. [9]