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The Medici weren't the only famous family of the Italian Renaisssance.
Pragmatic pacifists marshaled around Cosimo de'Medici. Maso degli Albizzi ... And Rinaldo's rash decision to besiege the Palazzo Vecchio when he didn't get his way allowed Cosimo to return ...
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The Medici were well-known for their personal as well as professional dalliances.
When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man ... Lorenzo's brother, Giuliano de'Medici, famously impregnated his mistress before his brutal murder in 1478. Their child, Giulio de'Medici, was later ...
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Medici secret passageway in Florence reopens after refit
A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici ... famous Ponte Vecchio, has been closed for eight years. Designed in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari, a commission by Duke Cosimo I to mark ...