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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
Pragmatic pacifists marshaled around Cosimo de'Medici. Maso degli Albizzi, patriach of his family, had two sons, Luca and Rinaldo. From a young age, Luca was friends with Cosimo de'Medici.
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The Medici were well-known for their personal as well as professional dalliances.
away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and became a wealthy man in Barcelona. Lorenzo's brother, Giuliano de'Medici, famously impregnated his mistress before ...
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Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589)
Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ Review: A Woman at the Apex of Power
Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard ... Protestant and Catholic aristocrats had joined the royal family for the wedding of Catherine’s (Catholic) daughter ...
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The Medici
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's ... With the rise of Cosimo de' Medici, they became Florence's most powerful and influential dynasty, effectively ...
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Secret Florence passage that Medici family used to move safely reopens to public
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly ... they will be allowed to go around the Torre de Mannelli and peer from above into the Church of ...
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The Medici arrives in Australia
The Medici family has determined the fate of Tuscany from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Power, conspiracy, intrigue, and politics underlying the ascent of the most famous bankers' family in ...