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April blood : Florence and the plot against the Medici
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ISBN: 1280837721 0195348435 1429438789 9780195348439 9781280837722 9780195152951 0195152956 9786610837724 6610837724 9780199882397 0199882398 9780195176094 019517609X 0224061674 9780224061674 9781429438780 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treac

Lorenzo de' Medici and the art of magnificence
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ISBN: 0801892015 143569273X 9781435692732 0801878683 9780801878688 9780801886270 0801886279 9780801892011 0801878683 9780801878688 Year: 2004 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), called "the Magnificent," as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was far more interested in collecting ancient objects of art than in commissioning contemporary art or architecture. His earlier reputation as a patron was said to be largely a construct of humanist exaggeration and partisan deference.

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