The Medici Family (jan 1, 1434 – jan 1, 1737)
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A powerful Italian banking and political dynasty that ruled Florence from the 15th to 18th centuries. They were renowned for their wealth, political influence, and patronage of the arts, which helped shape the Italian Renaissance. Wealthy merchant families bankers who controlled the Italian city-state of Florence during the Renaissance era. Their subsidization of the arts, especially under Lorenzo, supported the flowering of the Renaissance.
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