Piero de’ Medici, the son of Cosimo the Elder, was born in Florence in 1416 and became the Lord of Florence in 1464, but his patronage had a brief duration, only 6 years from 1464 to 1469, when he died after a long period of illness. His nickname, “the Gouty”, was due to the gout, […]
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In 1469, after Piero the Gouty’s death, his son Lorenzo became the statesman and the ruler of the Florentine Republic. As his grandfather Cosimo de’ Medici had previously done, Lorenzo aimed at keeping both peace and balance of power among the northern Italian states and, as a result, he managed to create a sense […] |
 
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