HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Were Art Patrons
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Owned Several Banks
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Produced Four Popes
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All of These
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is Lorenzo de’ Medici significant? Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Florentine statesman and arts patron is considered the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence for some 20 years in the 15th century, during which time he brought stability to the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most famous, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as Leo X, had superb taste in art (like the rest of his illustrious relatives).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism. The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers. Both businesses were very profitable and the family became extremely wealthy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Medici family, French Médicis, 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).
Detailed explanation-5: -The Medici family can be traced to the Mugello valley just north of Florence where they were mentioned in a document from the year 1230. The Medici villa of Cafaggiolo was the family’s Mugello home, located near present day Barberino di Mugello.