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Lorenzo de' Medici

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Lorenzo de' Medici. For the members of the Medici Medici , Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. Of obscure origin, they rose to immense wealth as merchants and bankers, became affiliated through marriage with the major houses of Europe, and, besides acquiring (1569)
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While this thorough biography of the Florentine banker, diplomat, and friend of Lorenzo de' Medici confirms, rather than gives grounds for revising, this impression, it was a task very well worth undertaking.
At the age of 15 his talent caught the attention of Lorenzo de' Medici, who took Michelangelo to live in the Medici Palace.
Anyway, 74-year-old Eli Broad, the Lorenzo de' Medici of Los Angeles thought so, and like George Patton, the WWII general to whom he recently compared himself, he charged right ahead and built the Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
 
 
 
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