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Lorenzo de' Medici

Italian statesman and foremost patron of Renaissance culture.

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic who lived from 1 January 1449 to 8 April 1492.[1] His life coincided with the mature phase of the Italian Renaissance and the golden age of Florence.[1] Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, who lived from 1 January 1449 to 8 April 1492, was the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and is noted for being the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy, supporting artists including Botticelli and Michelangelo.[1]

Quick Facts

Reign
2 December 1469 – 8 April 1492
Predecessor
Piero the Gouty
Successor
Piero the Unfortunate
Spouse
Clarice Orsini
Full name
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici
Noble family
Medici
Mother
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Born
1 January 1449

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He was tutored by the humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino and trained in Greek by the scholar John Argyropoulos.[2] He assumed a leading role in the state upon his father's death in 1469, when he was 20.[3] On 26 April 1478, the Pazzi conspiracy attacked Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, killing Giuliano but leaving Lorenzo with only a minor wound.[4] Lorenzo was buried with his brother Giuliano in the Basilica di San Lorenzo in a red porphyry sarcophagus.[5]

At age 20 in 1469, Lorenzo achieved first place in a Medici-sponsored jousting tournament, and he entered the event bearing a banner created by Verrocchio.[6] Lorenzo wed Clarice Orsini on 7 February 1469, and the in-person marriage ceremony occurred in Florence on 4 June 1469.[7]

What the cited sources add

The BlackPast article states that most sources name Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Urbino, as the father of Alessandro de' Medici.[8] The Wheeler timeline records that Lorenzo's son Piero was born on 15 February 1472 and died on 28 December 1503.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Picotti, "Medici, Lorenzo de', detto il Magnifico", 1934; Parks, "Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence", The Art Book, 2008, p. 288; "Fact about Lorenzo de' Medici", 100 Leaders in world history, 2008; Kent, "Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence", JHU Press, 1 February 2007, p. 110–112; Brucker, "Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence", University of California Press, 21 March 2005, p. 14–15 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hugh Ross Williamson, p. 67; Durant, "The Renaissance", Simon and Schuster, 1953, p. 110 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Walter, "Lorenzo der Prächtige: Mäzen, Schöngeist und Tyrann", 2013, p. 32 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jensen, "Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation", D.C. Heath and Company, 1992, p. 80; Durant, "The Renaissance", Simon and Schuster, 1953, p. 125; Busi, "Lorenzo de' Medici", Mondadori, 31 October 2016; Thompson, "Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation", William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996, p. 189 ff (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hugh Ross Williamson, p. 270–280 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Davie, "Luigi Pulci's Stanze per la Giostra: Verse and Prose Accounts of a Florentine Joust of 1469", Italian Studies, 1989, p. 41–58; Machiavelli, "The Florentine History", London: Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, 1906, p. 169; Poliziano, Angelo, "The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano", Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, p. x; Christopher Hibbert, chapter 9 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Lorenzo de' Medici" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pernis, "Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici family in the fifteenth century", Peter Lang, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. "Alessandro de' Medici (1510–1537) BlackPast", 9 December 2007. facts only, no text reused. blackpast.org
  9. Wheeler, "Piero de Medici (the Unfortunate) Timeline 1472-1503", TheTimelineGeek, 9 July 2020. facts only, no text reused. thetimelinegeek.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Lorenzo de' Medici (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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