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Lorenzo de Medici, 1449–1492 (aged 43 years)
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- Lorenzo /de Medici/
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- Medici
- Given names
- Lorenzo
- Nickname
- The Magnificent
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1449–1492
Birth: 1 January 1449
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— Florence, Tuscany, Italy Death: 9 April 1492 — Careggi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
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1449–1492
Birth: 1 January 1449
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— Florence, Tuscany, Italy Death: 9 April 1492 — Careggi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy |
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1475–1525
Birth: 11 December 1475
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— Florence, Tuscany, Italy Death: 1 December 1525 — Rome, Lazio, Italy |
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44 years
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1519–1589
Birth: 13 April 1519
70
— Florence, Tuscany, Italy Death: 5 January 1589 — Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France |
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Author of last change: Danny |
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Lorenzo de' Medici, called The Magnificent (1449-92), Italian banker and statesman, who was a leading patron of art and scholarship during the Renaissance. Lorenzo was born in Florence on January 1, 1449, the son of Piero de' Medici (1416-69), and on his father's Death he assumed the direction of the Medici bank, as well as de facto rule of the Florentine republic. He was More successful as apolitician and art connoisseur than as a bank administrator, and his family's finances suffered from the expense of his government. Lorenzo married into the noble Orsini family but ruled initially without altering the old republicaninstitutions, and he remained officially a private citizen. His popular, efficient government of the city and its dependencies was marred only by his approval of a brutal sack (1472) of the rebellious town of Volterra. In 1478 members of the Pazzi family tried to assassinate Lorenzo, and in the aftermath of that affair the Medici punished some supPorters of Pope Sixtus IV implicated in the plot. The Pope, backed by Naples, then declared war on Florence.Pursuing the family policy of promoting peace among the Italian states, Lorenzo ended the war by personal diplomacy. This further increased his popularity with the Florentines and enabled him to secure constitutional changes that enhanced his power. His last years were devoted to establishing the careers of his Children and guarding the peace. Himself a gifted poet, Lorenzo gathered at his court the leading artists and intellectuals of his day. Among those who enjoyed his patronage were the painters Botticelli and Michelangelo, the philosophers Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico dellaMirandola, and the humanist poet Angelo Poliziano (Politian). Lorenzo died at Careggi on April 9, 1492. |
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Note: Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician andpatron of scholars, artists and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace he helped maintain between the various Italian statescollapsed with his death. Lorenzo de' Medici is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence. |
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Note: The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It was among the first of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at thevilla in 1464. Like most villas of Florentine families, the villa remained a working farm that helped render the family self-sufficient. Cosimo's architect there, as elsewhere, was Michelozzo, who remodelled the fortified villa which hadsomething of the character of a castello. Its famous garden is walled about, like a medieval garden, overlooked by the upper-storey loggias, with which Michelozzo cautiously opened up the villa's structure. Michelozzo's Villa Medici in Fiesolehas a more outward-looking, Renaissance character. The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It was among the first of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at thevilla in 1464. Like most villas of Florentine families, the villa remained a working farm that helped render the family self-sufficient. Cosimo's architect there, as elsewhere, was Michelozzo, who remodelled the fortified villa which hadsomething of the character of a castello. Its famous garden is walled about, like a medieval garden, overlooked by the upper-storey loggias, with which Michelozzo cautiously opened up the villa's structure. Michelozzo's Villa Medici in Fiesolehas a more outward-looking, Renaissance character. The property was purchased in 1417. At the death of Giovanni di Bicci, Cosimo il Vecchio set about remodelling the beloved villa around its loggia-enclosed central courtyard. His nephew Lorenzo extended the terraced gardens and the shaded boschi. Marsilio Ficino, who died at the villa in 1499, was a central member of the academy. Lorenzo de' Medici died at the villa in 1492, after which it was ignored for a time until about 1615, when Cardinal Carlo de' Medici undertook extensiveprojects to remodel the interior, and bring the garden up to date. The villa property was purchased from the Lorraine heirs of the Medici in 1779 by Vincenzo Orsi; the Orsi heirs sold it to an Englishman, Francis Sloane, in 1848: Sloane planted exotics in the landscape: Cedar of Lebanon and Himalayan cedars,Californian sequoias, arbutus from the eastern Mediterranean and palms, which give the grounds their feeling of an arboretum. Today the villa belongs to Hospital of Careggi. |