The Medici family tree is full of great winemakers By Wes Marshall, 8:06AM, Sat. Apr. 24, 2021. Tweet. print. write a letter. If you know anything at all about Italian history (especially during ...

Giovanni di Micci de'Medici (1360-1429) was born into a relatively poor Florentine family and received only a nominal inheritance when his father died of the plague.

The third of eight surviving children, Isabella de' Medici (1542–1576) ... A Medici family tree, map of Florence and b&w illustrations of Renaissance Florence are welcome embellishments.

When Cosimo I de’ Medici, a 17-year-old from a lesser-known branch of Florence’s famed Medici family, came to power in 1537, the republic’s elite expected him to serve as a mere figurehead.

Scientists who exhumed the remains of several members of the Medicis, the clan that dominated the Florentine Renaissance, have conclusively dismissed the theory of family murders, solving a more ...

Lorenzo de'Medici was patron to Leonardo da Vinci for seven years and invited a promising 15-year-old sculptor to live in the family palace as a son. You may have heard of him: Michelangelo.

Agnolo Bronzino’s portrait of Lodovico Capponi, a young noble, is among 90 works dating to the days of the Medici family’s rule of Florence.