Girolamo Savonarola frequently suggested in his sermons that Lorenzo de Medici kept the city enthralled with lavish civic celebrations in order to distract and stupefy the Florentine populace into submission. […]
Though Lorenzo de Medici had the severe disadvantage of living with gout, he remained strong in his will to work and travel outside of Florence if the need arose. […]
Lorenzo the Magnificent was a patron of the arts and acted as an essential communication channel between various artists and patrons who commissioned artworks. […]
Over his lifetime, Lorenzo and his wife, Clarice, produced male heirs to carry on the Medici line, and their daughters were married into aristocratic families that elevated Medici status throughout Italy, and abroad. […]
Though the end of the Florentine-Neapolitan war was good news for Florence, the city-state’s economy was not in agood shape and Lorenzo needed to deal with this financial crisis immediately. […]
Lorenzo the Magnificent used his diplomatic expertise to save Florence after the Kingdom of Naples waged a war on Florence, which was instigated by the papacy. […]
Lorenzo de’ Medici was an intelligent man when it came to political maneuvering. Unfortunately, despite his best strategies, his inexperience shone through and made him susceptible to plots and attacks by the nobility itself. […]
Lorenzo de’ Medici felt that more importance should be given to the vernacular. Florentine language, Lorenzo believed, help effectively communicate the Renaissance complex ideas to the current audiences. […]
Debauchery was common among men in power. Machiavelli quotes Lorenzo as an exception. He saw Lorenzo maintaining a balance between his active social life with his serious political life. […]
Cosimo de’ Medici followed Niccolò Machiavelli’s concept of taking political descisions in favor of the
‘common good’ even if it meant ignoring dissent and crushing it. […]
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