But Lorenzo de'Medici, wary of Pazzi ambition, kept his rivals out of government office during the 1470s. When a greedy nephew of Pope Sixtus IV approached the younger Pazzi with a plan to seize ...

Four Medici popes were born to the Medici family (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leo XI), and their genes are part of many royal families in Europe today. Tuscany was ruled by them in the 15th to ...

Michelangelo was no longer a friend to this Medici Pope. In 1530 the artist had cowered beneath the tombs he had built for the Medici cousins, as Pope Clement VII laid siege to Florence. Michelangelo ...

15.1 x 22 cm. (5.9 x 8.7 in.) ...

Their patronage of the arts turned Florence into a leading centre of the Renaissance and the Medici Bank was one of the most successful institutions of its day. As well as producing four popes ...

But Lorenzo de'Medici, wary of Pazzi ambition, kept his rivals out of government office during the 1470s. When a greedy nephew of Pope Sixtus IV approached the younger Pazzi with a plan to seize ...