Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici
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Laird o Florence
Reign	2 December 1469 – 8 April 1492
Predecessor	Piero the Gouty
Successor	Piero the Unfortunate
	Full name Lorenzo de' Medici
Born	1 Januar 1449; Florence, Republic o Florence
Dee'd	8 Apryle 1492 (aged 43); Careggi, Republic o Florence
Nobility	Hoose o Medici
Spoose(s)	Clarice Orsini
	Issue Lucrezia; Piero; Maddalena; Contessina Beatrice; Giovanni, Pape Leo X; Luisa de' Medici; Contessina; Giuliano, Duke o Nemours
Faither	Piero the Gouty
Mither	Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Seegnatur

Lorenzo de' Medici (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso de ˈmɛːditʃi], 1 Januar 1449 – 8 Aprile 1492^[1]) wis an Italian statesman an de facto ruler o the Florentine Republic, wha wis ane o the maist pouerfu an enthusiastic patrons o the Renaissance.^[2]^[3]^[4]Forby kent as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico [loˈrɛntso il maɲˈɲiːfiko]) bi contemporary Florentines, he wis a magnate, diplomat, politeecian an patron o scholars, airtists an poets. He is weel kent for his contreibution tae the airt warld bi sponsorin airtists such as Botticelli an Michelangelo. His life coincidit wi the matur phase o Italian Renaissance an his daith coincidit wi the end o the Gowden Age o Florence.^[5] The fragile peace that he helped maintain amang the various Italian states collapsed wi his daith. He is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

References

↑ Medici, Lorenzo de', detto il Magnifico Enciclopedia Italiana
↑ Parks, Tim (2008). Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 288.
↑ "Fact about Lorenzo de' Medici". 100 Leader in world history. 2008. Archived frae the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
↑ Kent, F.W. (2006). Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence. USA: JHU Press. p. 248. ISBN 0-8018-8627-9.
↑ Gene Brucker, Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 14–15.

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[1] Medici, Lorenzo de', detto il Magnifico Enciclopedia Italiana

[2] Parks, Tim (2008). Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 288.

[3] "Fact about Lorenzo de' Medici". 100 Leader in world history. 2008. Archived frae the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2008.

[4] Kent, F.W. (2006). Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence. USA: JHU Press. p. 248. ISBN 0-8018-8627-9.

[5] Gene Brucker, Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 14–15.

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