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Learn about the history, power, and legacy of the Medici family, who dominated Florence and Tuscany from the 15th to the 18th century. The Medici were famous for their patronage of arts, sciences, and politics, and produced four popes and two queens of France.
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the Medici family, a powerful Florentine dynasty that ruled Italy and influenced the Renaissance. Discover their rise, fall, achievements and legacy in politics, culture and religion.
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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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- 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.
Learn about the origins, rise and legacy of the Medici family, who shaped Florence's history and culture for six centuries. Discover their role in banking, politics, arts and humanities, and their famous members such as Cosimo, Lorenzo and Catherine de' Medici.
Aug 19, 2021 · The Medici were the first family of the city state of Florence, rising from humble beginnings as merchants and bankers to become Grand Dukes of Tuscany. But how did they achieve this? And how important were they to the Renaissance?
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 ...
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