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Hace 2 días · In 1523, Clement VII arranged for Alessandro to be declared the legitimate son of Lorenzo II de‘ Medici, thus securing his place in the Medici lineage. He also arranged for Alessandro to marry Margaret of Austria, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Charles V, in order to strengthen the Medici‘s ties to the Habsburg dynasty.
Hace 2 días · For Lorenzo de' Medici, he created the bronze statuette Hercules and Antaeus (c. 1475), in which the mythological motif is represented by a play of interlocking broken lines, generating tensions of great violence.
Hace 6 días · Un hombre de gran talento creativo y también problemático: viajó mucho, hizo obras asombrosas, fue soldado mercenario y víctima de la Inquisición en España, incumplió compromisos y le rompió la...
Hace 5 días · Even those who hated the Medici began keeping their distance. Machiavelli couldn’t see anything wrong in speaking his mind, though. He was convinced that the Medici were still too weak to clamp down on dissent. In this, he was catastrophically wrong. In mid-February 1513, a plot to assassinate Giuliano de’ Medici was uncovered.
Hace 5 días · Lucrezia de’ Medici was a Duchess of Ferrara and a member of the powerful Medici family. Her marriage to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, at a young age, was a political union that expanded the Medici influence. Lucrezia’s untimely death at 21 has been surrounded by intrigue and speculation within historical contexts.
Hace 5 días · Lorenzo il Magnifico: li cialdoni - storia della gastronomia. Pare che Lorenzo dé Medici fosse anche un buon gastronomo, tanto che nel suo Canto de' Cialdonai insegna a fare i cialdoni. «Metti nel vaso acqua e farina, quando hai menato, poi vi si getta quel ch'è dolce e bianco zucchero: fatto l'intriso, poi col dito assaggia, se ...
Hace 2 días · Lecture 12: Despite the republican constitution of Florence, Lorenzo was born, in effect, a Renaissance prince. His father and grandfather had managed the state, using the Medici faction and their enormous wealth as instruments for control. Only 20 in 1469, when his father, Piero, died, Lorenzo was thrust into the political and diplomatic ...
