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   Who were the Medici family?

   • Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.

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   Who were the Medici dynasty?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530).

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   Where did the Medici come from?

   • The Medici were originally of Tuscan peasant origin, from the village of Cafaggiolo in the Mugello, the valley of the Sieve, north of Florence. Some of these villagers, in the 12th century perhaps, became aware of the new opportunities afforded by commerce and emigrated to Florence.

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   Who was the House of Medici?

   • 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.

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   How did the Medici family transform Florence?

   • Over a period of just 100 years, the Medici family transformed Florence. As unparalleled patrons of the arts, they supported some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Giovanni di Bicci, the first Medici arts patron, encouraged Masaccio and commissioned Brunelleschi for the reconstruction of the Basilica di San Lorenzo in 1419.

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   How did the Medici family gain political power?

   • As the pope’s bankers, the family quickly acquired political power. In 1434, Giovanni’s son Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) became the first Medici to de facto rule Florence.

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   Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.

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   Lodovico de' Medici (1498–1526) Maria Salviati (1499–1543) Eleanor of Toledo (1522–1562) Cosimo I (1519–1574) Grand Duke 1569–74: Camilla Martelli

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   The House of Medici (English: / ˈmɛdɪtʃi / MED-itch-ee, UK also / məˈdiːtʃi / mə-DEE-chee; [ 4 ]Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.

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   Nov 9, 2009 · Beginning in 1434 with the rise to power of Cosimo de Medici (or Cosimo the Elder), the family’s patronage of the arts and humanities made Florence into the cradle of the Renaissance,...

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   • The founding of the Medici dynasty. The Medici family originated in the agricultural Mugello region of Tuscany. The name Medici means “doctors”. The dynasty began when Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici (1360–1429) emigrated to Florence to found the Medici Bank in 1397, which would become Europe’s largest and most respected bank.
   • The three branches of the Medici family. There were three branches of Medicis that successfully gained power – the line of Chiarissimo II, the line of Cosimo (known as Cosimo the Elder) and the descendants of his brother, who went on to rule as grand dukes.
   • Cosimo the Elder and his descendants. During Cosimo’s reign, the Medicis gained fame and prestige first in Florence and then across Italy and Europe. Florence prospered.
   • The Pazzi conspiracy. In 1478, the Pazzi and Salviati families attempted a plot to displace the Medicis with the approval of Pope Sixtus IV, who was an enemy of the Florentine family.

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   May 26, 2024 · Looking back, the Medici stand as one of the most influential families in Italian history. Rising from merchant bankers to de facto rulers of Florence, they shaped the political, economic, and cultural landscape for over 300 years.

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   Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and later Tuscany from c. 1430 to 1737. The family, noted for its often tyrannical rulers and its beneficent patrons of the arts, also provided the church with four popes ( Leo X , Clement VII , Pius IV, and Leo XI) and married into the royal families of Europe, notably in France ...