The Medici Family The Medici Family Thesis Statement- The Medici family in Florence Italy were very rich‚ the Medici included several notable members: Lorenzo de Medici‚ Giovanni de Medici‚ Cosimo de Medici. And also some important women. The Medici Family I. History of the family A. Becoming established 1. 1. Giovanni de Medici took a job working in a bank‚ eventually taking over the bank where it later became known as the
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Cosimo Medici was born in Florence Italy‚ on September 27th in the year 1389‚ he was the the first son to Giovanni de’ Medici and Piccarda de’ Bueri. He was just the son of a meer merchant‚ but his impact on Florence and it’s people would be immense. His father was the one who laid the foundation to the family’s massive fortune‚ after the death of his father in the year 1429 Cosimo Medici continued the legacy‚ turning a small banking business into the most powerful in Europe. When you are in the
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her beliefs. Catherine de Medici was a women who should have been noticed a more throughout her lifetime due to her family‚ the kind of lifestyle that she lived‚ her beliefs and the responsibilities she had while she reigned. Catherine de Medici‚ born April 13th‚ 1519 and died January 5th‚ 1589. “Catherine was born in 1519 to a powerful Italian prince from the Medici Family‚” (Catherine de Medici Biography 2). She was the daughter of Lorenzo II de Medici and Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne. But
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1st Paper Lorenzo The Magnificent Lorenzo de’ Medici also know as Lorenzo the Magnificent was an Italian statesman. He was the son of Piero de’ Medici. The family came with the establishment of the Medici bank by Giovanni de’ Medici‚ Lorenzo’s great-grandfather (James). The banking system was appointed the official bank of the papacy. When his father Piero de’ Medici died in 1469. Young Lorenzo took over only at the age of twenty. Lorenzo de’ Medici was one of the most prominent individuals of
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Catherine De’ Medici was born on April 13th‚ 1519 in Florence‚ Italy. She was the daughter of Lorenzo de’ Medici II and Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne but was orphaned in less than a month from both parents dying from syphilis. She was served as Duchess of Urbino‚ Queen of France‚ Regent of France (for all three sons)‚ and was a huge source in the Medici family. Catherine de’ Medici was the most famous and influential woman of the Medici family. After her parents death‚ Pope Leo X and future Pope
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The Medici Family The Medici family - controlled Florence throughout much of the Renaissance The Medici are the first princely dynasty to win their status not by warfare‚ marriage or inheritance but through commerce. They come to Florence in the 12th century from the nearby countryside. Their ancestral home is in the Mugello valley. During the next two centuries the family‚ amassing a fortune through banking and trade‚ begins also to play a prominent part in Florence’s political life. As yet
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Medici Legacy: Renaissance Ideals and Scientific Revolution The Medici legacy brought a reform of new ideas by allowing great minds to express and contemplate the universe. The Renaissance allowed the Medici to fully grant a new form of thinking that led to effects that have split the church and science defining a new era of human worth. The Medici wealth and taste in art endorsed the ideas that many thought moved away from the Vatican Church orthodox way of thought and caused such controversy for
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learn poetry‚ history and politics. That these should not be only learned for their own sake‚ but also to improve oneself. That to only do the necessary to go to heaven was not enough‚ they had to do their very best in their every day lives. Cosimo de´Medici along with supervisor Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola founded the Florentine Platonic Academy‚ which was actually not a formal school‚ but an informal gathering of Florentine humanist. There they worked to revive the works of Plato‚
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Art Stud 1 BPE The Medici Pope Florence was once the City of the heart of Artistic Revolution where the wealthiest and the most powerful family ruled—The Medici. The great artist Michelangelo was adopted by this family and grew in the same household with Giovanni and Guilio de Medici. Sparked by resentment of the people for Medici wealth and power‚ civil war broke out in Florence and the heirs were cast into exile
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were dozens of hand-copied books‚ one manuscript‚ for example‚ was one thousand years old. Her father got to have those books and manuscripts because he worked for the Florentine historian and scholar: Poggio Bracciolini who also worked for Cosimo de Medici. Cosimo wanted his people to know the ancient Greek and Roman writers and documents that were destroyed with the great library in Alexandria (Egypt. Many of these were hidden from the Christian church fathers‚ who thought them heretical. Ernesto
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