In his 1963 book, 'The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank,' medieval economic historian Raymond de Roover likens the Medici banking dynasty to today's banking fortresses. And it makes sense. The ...
Figlio di Caterina Sforza (detta la Dama guerriera del Rinascimento) e di Giovanni de’ Medici (detto il Popolano), Giovanni delle bande nere (che in realtà si chiamava Ludovico) fu l’ultimo capitano ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Cosimo I de’ Medici became the second duke of Florence, ...
For more than 400 years, Florentine society has simmered with rumors about the supposed violent deaths of the teenage sons of the wealthy Cosimo de Medici, one stabbed to death by his brother over a ...
The Albizzi were one of the oldest families in Florence and led the republican government for two generations. By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici.
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