WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Three successive generations of the Medici-Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo-ruled over Florence through the greater part of the 15th century. They clearly dominated Florentine representative government without abolishing it altogether.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Medici family, also known as the House of Medici, first attained wealth and political power in Florence, Italy, in the 13th century through its success in commerce and banking.

Detailed explanation-4: -And the Medici family, who ruled Florence for generations from palaces like this, was loaded. It was the Medici wealth-they were bankers-along with their passion for art, and their super-sized egos that helped Florence fund the Renaissance and make this city the art capital of the western world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Florence was governed by a council called the signoria, which consisted of nine men. The head of the signoria was the gonfaloniere, who was chosen every two months in a lottery, as was his signoria.